my geese and ducks certainly recognize me and the notice what I wear...I usually wear grey sweats or grey gym shorts while working out side in the garden, yard or with the flock...one day I got a new pair of sweat pants and they were brown...I went to the yard and everyone scattered in alarm...no amount of talking would get them any where near those new pants...I guess they thought I had contracted some bad thing on my legs and they did not want it to get on them...I went to the house, put on my greys, went back out side and they were all over me and so glad to see that I was as I should be...I have tried that a few times with different jackets, shirts and get the same reaction...who knew that geese and ducks would demand a particular dress code?  I found it interesting and amusing...
It reminded me of a similar incident with an appaloosa stallion I owned several years ago...jeans and boots were the dress code...I was going out to a confirmation event at the church and had to wear a dress...he had never seen me in a dress and it scared the bejeezuz out of him...he took one look at me and my legs and tore off for the back forty...I saw him peeking out from behind the pine trees as I left the property...and he gave me a good look over the next morning to make sure I had gotten over whatever was "wrong" with me before he would approach...
they are all such a bunch of characters...and they have expectations!