How to pick up a duck 🦆

[vk6flab@mastodon.radio]

@fzer0 this reminds me of picking up a lost swan when I was about 14 years old. Everyone around me was panicking. I just gently picked it up, held its wings close to its body, ignored its hissing and walked two blocks from where I found it and put it down at the waters edge and stepped back. It looked at me, shook itself, waddled to the water and swam away. I'm still not sure if I was just lucky, or if people are freaked out by swans.

[drewtowler@mas.to]

@fzer0 Wish this worked with chickens.

[oranger@piaille.fr]

@johnefrancis @esistangerichtet @fzer0 @lacybarry
I wouldn't try again. It chased me away looking ferocious.
#birds

[johnefrancis@cosocial.ca]

@OrangeR @esistangerichtet @fzer0 @lacybarry there's always one that's "standing guard" with its head up. Don't try to pick up that one. Pickup one of the ones that is furiously eating grass.

[stingrayvillacozumel@mastodon.social]

@fzer0 i wish I had a duck

[oranger@piaille.fr]

@fzer0 @esistangerichtet @lacybarry @johnefrancis
Nope, I chickened out already once. (You can see the watchgoose in the second pic). Well... it had rained and areas were muddy I couldn't run fast enough. Who am I to disturb their lunch ?
Also, they respect nothing, they went into the water in spite of it being forbidden.

[peachfront@toot.community]

@OrangeR

"we pose for food, we chase those who show up with cameras but no food, consider yourself warned!" -- goose not just for canada anymore

[oranger@piaille.fr]

@peachfront

[angelthorns@social.treehouse.systems]

@fzer0 Oh my ducking god that duck is adorable

[fzer0@nerdculture.de]

@stingrayvillacozumel

The elites don’t want you to know this but the ducks at the park are free.
You can take them home.
I have 458 ducks.

[frantasaur@mastodon.ie]

@fzer0 @lacybarry @Pepijn

[pomegranate_stew@kind.social]

@vk6flab @fzer0

Both. You were lucky and people are freaked out by swans.

Nice of you to help it out!

[pomegranate_stew@kind.social]

@Fridgitator @fzer0
This sounds like advice learned from experience.

[energisch_@troet.cafe]

@fzer0 sehr hilfreich, very helpful should I ever need it

[bit@ohai.social]

@fzer0 I think Trump misunderstood this tutorial.

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@johnefrancis
Geese are generally unpickupable. Admire from distance.
@fzer0 @lacybarry

[magnetic_tape@infosec.exchange]

@ndevenish
Yes. Sadly some people don't give a duck about that
@lacybarry @fzer0

[timo_micro@scicomm.xyz]

@Pepijn Vital technical training now available on Mastodon!

[pepijn@mastodon.online]

@Timo_Micro 8 or 9yr old me once tried this technique with a swan. Got a free doctor visit out of it and two days off from school!