hi there
I thought I would open this thread up for Bedford area.
I would love to know any who are out there who want to add their quota.Today: Time 12.15pm. I was out on one of my regular walks around Bedford with my camera in hand as you do.
I wanted to take some pictures of the resident wildfowl along the Great River Ouse and at Bedford Park. The sun was out so that make it all the more exhilarating, and it was good all round weather for a pleasant walk around my favourite patches :-O
While walking along the Embankment (Great River Ouse) quite close to the Swan Hotel, I came across a very bedraggled adult Canadian goose which looked worse for wear. :-C
On closer inspection I would that both of it's wings where out of shape and the feathers where pointing out at a awkward angle. I could not get very close and the goose had me in its sights.
I could not see any blood as such. At this point I thought a dog had mauled it.
I returned home about 2.15 to watch Animal 24:7 on BBC 2 and it was then I decided to ring up the RSPA about the goose.They took my details and the place where the goose was seen. Then a very polite lady contacted me to explain that she believed that the goose might be suffering from a problem called 'Angels Wing'.
The solution was to leave the bird alone as the deformity was seen as incurable.
It stopped the bird from flying at all. This is deformity in the wings which some geese, Swans and ducks are prone too.
It is incurable. I have never heard of it at all before and I am wondering I widespread the problem of Angel Wing is at the moment.
Has anyone else heard of this is their local area at all. I have posted a couple of pictures so the wings can be seen just incase any one else has seen it, and is worried about what they have seen
Kathy
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I thought I would open this thread up for Bedford area.
I would love to know any who are out there who want to add their quota.Today: Time 12.15pm. I was out on one of my regular walks around Bedford with my camera in hand as you do.
I wanted to take some pictures of the resident wildfowl along the Great River Ouse and at Bedford Park. The sun was out so that make it all the more exhilarating, and it was good all round weather for a pleasant walk around my favourite patches :-O
While walking along the Embankment (Great River Ouse) quite close to the Swan Hotel, I came across a very bedraggled adult Canadian goose which looked worse for wear. :-C
On closer inspection I would that both of it's wings where out of shape and the feathers where pointing out at a awkward angle. I could not get very close and the goose had me in its sights.
I could not see any blood as such. At this point I thought a dog had mauled it.
I returned home about 2.15 to watch Animal 24:7 on BBC 2 and it was then I decided to ring up the RSPA about the goose.They took my details and the place where the goose was seen. Then a very polite lady contacted me to explain that she believed that the goose might be suffering from a problem called 'Angels Wing'.
The solution was to leave the bird alone as the deformity was seen as incurable.
It stopped the bird from flying at all. This is deformity in the wings which some geese, Swans and ducks are prone too.
It is incurable. I have never heard of it at all before and I am wondering I widespread the problem of Angel Wing is at the moment.
Has anyone else heard of this is their local area at all. I have posted a couple of pictures so the wings can be seen just incase any one else has seen it, and is worried about what they have seen
Kathy
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