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Cobra chickens!
Our neighborhood was invaded by Geese!!
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A bonded pair have been nesting in a retention pond where I walk the dog. After the thousands we get leave, they hang around and nest. I've watched the same pair for years. After the hatch they hang in the pond till the goslings get their sea legs. They hop over the berm and float the farmers ditch down to a small lake and stay there till they learn to fly. Then bye bye, see you next year. I think some of the offspring's also now nest in the area. Yes, they're messy and I get tired of walking through goose poop, but it's cool to watch.
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Geese are together for life. Really sad when one of a pair is killed as the one left is on its own. Can see those if one looks closely at a flock.
PeterJ
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They hate leaf blowers and if you have a battery operated one you can get a lot closer.
For some reason (Bird Flu possibly) the amount of both Geese and Ducks in my area is down significantly. I have lived on a large reservoir for 22 years and had a summer camp up her before that for about 18 yeas. I noticed the difference initially at the end of this last winter, not seeing or hearing the amount of birds I was used to flying by. Also not seeing as many large broods out there. Of course the amount of poop seen out on the sand bar is way down.
Hope things improve for next year!
Hope things improve for next year!
Don't have them my way. My first experience with them was camping alongside Lake Michigan.
Took me a little less than an hour to from "Awwwwww…." to AH **** !!! They were acutely aware of their protected status. I learned the origins of the phrase "goose poop" that day.
Took me a little less than an hour to from "Awwwwww…." to AH **** !!! They were acutely aware of their protected status. I learned the origins of the phrase "goose poop" that day.
When I was working for G4S as a roving security guard there was a substation that I had to check every morning that had a lake and because of that it had geese.
One night my wife gave me a fruit bowl that she had bought at Walmart that was going bad and told me to take it and feed it to the geese.
So early the next morning I got to the substation, The Geese were there and I threw that fruit bowl out in the grass.
OMG they went crazy. They we're crushing grapes in their beaks and leaning their heads back so the juice would run down their throats OMG they were having a party.
After that every time I showed up with that substation they'd all come running
One night my wife gave me a fruit bowl that she had bought at Walmart that was going bad and told me to take it and feed it to the geese.
So early the next morning I got to the substation, The Geese were there and I threw that fruit bowl out in the grass.
OMG they went crazy. They we're crushing grapes in their beaks and leaning their heads back so the juice would run down their throats OMG they were having a party.
After that every time I showed up with that substation they'd all come running
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I used to work at a place where Canada Geese nested by the entrance. Approach and they'd try to run you off. Scooting out with their heads down and wings extended looking to get a bite out of you. The best thing to do was "be a bigger goose." Put your head down, stick your arms out, run straight at 'em and YELL. 
No doubt we looked like crazed fools, being a human goose. But it worked. We got in the door without getting nipped.
No doubt we looked like crazed fools, being a human goose. But it worked. We got in the door without getting nipped.
The species name is Canada Goose, not Canadian Goose. Now if it lived only in Canada, it would be a Canadian Canada Goose.
Goose hunting is my passion, and after 50 years I can tell you they're never where you want them to be!!!!
Like any widow or widower, the survivor moves on to the next available mate.
As a small town gas serviceman, I also read meters for 10 years. I had two animal bites that broke the skin, a ranch dog and a pet goose.I just look at them when they "attack" Watcha gonna do BILL me to death
Not long after we married I took Ruthie to play her first round of golf.
We were on hole #9 and she teed off from the ladies tee box. Just off to her right a gaggle of geese were meandering near a pond.
She shanked one and we heard a thump as a goose dropped to the ground.
She never played again.
We were on hole #9 and she teed off from the ladies tee box. Just off to her right a gaggle of geese were meandering near a pond.
She shanked one and we heard a thump as a goose dropped to the ground.
She never played again.
learned from my grandma. Plucked, brined, stuffed with raisins/apples/jam and roasted to medium rare.
Back in Pa had friends in Clarks Valley that kept bunch of watch geese. More effective then their Doberman.
My grandmother did much the same except she would glaze it with either apricot jam or orange marmalade.
Good eats.
About 25 years ago a local municipality in NE TN got over run with geese, they got the bright idea to relocate them. They trapped a bunch of them, tagged them and moved them to the Land Between the Lakes nearly 400 miles away, before the workers made it home some of the geese had already returned, turns out that they can fly.
