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smokingdragon

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 12 7:14 pm Post subject: Geese Petrified of Red LED

Hi
I wear a LED headtorch when rounding up the geese at night and a couple of nights ago accidently switched it from the normal white light to the red LED. This caused mass panick with the geese and as soon I switched it back to white light, order was restored.

I've tried this a couple of times to see if it was a coincidence and it always results in panic!

Has anyone else noticed this behaviour?

Simon

dpack

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 12 8:22 pm Post subject:
no but i can imagine they see it as flames moving about ,

jamanda
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 12 8:30 pm Post subject:
Might just be something unusual - maybe if you always used on red and accidently switched to white you'd get the same response.

alison
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 12 8:32 pm Post subject:
I don't know about geese, but we have to rear turkeys with red light, and chickens with white, otherwise they cause too much pecking damage to each other.

dpack

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 12 8:33 pm Post subject:
predator eye reflective shine ?

smokingdragon

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 12 8:50 pm Post subject:
Predator eyes - that was my theory too! Friendly fox eyes!!

jamanda
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 12 9:00 pm Post subject:
But in the wild would you ever get a bright enough light in the dark to reflect and show up the colour of the tapetum lucidum? (which in any case is yellow in dogs and presumambly foxes.) (We only see "red eye" on human flash photos because we don't have one)

dpack

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 12 9:05 pm Post subject:
umm they do glow a bit ,in a nightsight they look like headlights .

dpack

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 12 9:19 pm Post subject:

Jamanda wrote:

But in the wild would you ever get a bright enough light in the dark to reflect and show up the colour of the tapetum lucidum? (which in any case is yellow in dogs and presumambly foxes.)

(We only see "red eye" on human flash photos because we don't have one)

canines range from yellow ,blue ,red and other
foxes ,even in moonlight,shine if the angle is right ,red fox red eyes afaik. looking through a greenscreen they are the brightest thing in the world

geese have good eyesight,big red shine may well worry them

do they react in daylight ?

smokingdragon

Joined: 22 Aug 2009
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 12 9:44 pm Post subject:
I haven't tried that - but will have a go this weekend - wife does the morning shift!! Cocker spaniel have amber eyes and doberman's have blue eyes in torch light. Last edited by smokingdragon on Thu Jan 05, 12 9:46 pm; edited 1 time in total

NorthernMonkeyGirl

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 12 9:45 pm Post subject:
I now want a gaggle of geese and a set of lamps and filters

Went

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 12 9:47 pm Post subject:

NorthernMonkeyGirl wrote:

I now want a gaggle of geese and a set of lamps and filters

I was thinking that...and we have geese in the field opposite, now where can I get a red led light....

jamanda
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 12 9:49 pm Post subject:
So before we all put the Christmas lights away.......

dpack

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 12 10:04 pm Post subject:
2 red laser pointers on a foggy night would worry me til i flapped and fled i must try that on the moors

dpack

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 12 10:06 pm Post subject:
recon a red sweet wrapper and a maglight is low tech or a keyring led

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