>> Dogs are not the only hazard. Calling on a farm one day I was confronted
>> by three large and rather angry geese who made it very plain my presence wasn't
>> welcome. I only just made it back to the car before they got to me.
I thought about geese at start of this thread. Remember as a kid of 10 staying at High Tilberthwaite, a National Trust farm near Coniston, where an aggressive Gander made getting from car to house hazardous.
For many years the membership card stamp for Edale Youth Hostel featured the resident Goose.
I've a longer and dimmer memory of a Turkey at High Skellghyll farm who's patch we had to cross to access Catbells from our lodgings at Low Skellgyll.
In fact, to this day, I still think of a gate on the farm track under Catbells as 'The Turkey Gate'.
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