Geese flying south...

This time of year it is interesting to hear geese flying south. And, of course, they fly at night. If you have a bright moon, you can sometimes see the flocks at night. If you can locate them--and some of the flocks are high in the sky--they are amazing.

Honk...honk...honk...

 

We have the Canadian Geese here in the Seattle for a time on their way I presume South. I wasn't out and about to see them this year though :Cautious. It is especially necessary for us to be cautious because of my wife's mother nearing 98 needing to be with us.

 

Reminds me of a poem I knew in grade school....

“Canadian geese in the sky
Please don’t poopoo in my eye
Me no baby me no cry
Me just glad that cows don’t fly”

peace to you

 

I didn't know much about Canadian geese until we moved here to Natomas on the outskirts of Sacramento, California seven years ago but a half a mile from our house is a park with a lake and it is full of them... If its not the Geese its the Coots but we see more of the geese yearly than we do the coots... Every evening my wife in her evening devotion can hear them flying by and they are a sight to see, when the whole group take to the sky in the day... Kids and adults like to feed them and if you have some bread, they will all gang up around you to get their share... After the gardeners mow the grass in the park, the freshly mowed grass, stirs up the bugs and the geese gather in mass for which we have called the bug smorgasbord... Yummy, yum, yum!... Brother Glen:Biggrin

 

Have you ever stepped in goose droppings?
Those dirty birds leave droppings far worse than dogs.
Each goose poops out more than a pound of dropping each day.

Here in southeast Pennsylvania we have resident geese, they are the birds that don't migrate and stick around all year messing up our rivers, lakes and ponds.
There are thousands of them less then a half-mile away in a reservoir. When something disturbs them they are louder than a train.

In the spring my wife and I like to see foxes; they feast on goslings
And I oil the eggs I find in the nearby nests.
Here’s a pic from last Saturday.



Rob

 

Oil the eggs? Makes it easier for the foxes to swallow?

peace to you

 

Eggs have pores that allow the egg to oxygenate while the embryo matures.
Oiling the egg blocks the pores and kills the egg, the goose will continue to sit on a dead egg.
Break the eggs and the goose just lays more.

Rob

 

Well, that’s seems horrible to me, but I don’t have a couple thousand geese living next door so who I am going to cast judgement?

peace to you

 

My precise sentiments re: squirrels. Love to watch the little devils - at a distance!
Used to just scare them off when they would get mischievous & just think of them as an animal version of Dennis The Menace until they ruined a coupla bird feeders, almost chewed up a plastic gas can, and the kicker ----- they decided my house was tailor made for teeth sharpening. At this point, I started killing ANY that ventured in my yard!!
They will hear me crack a door now, & they're gone.
(Loved your poem!!!:Biggrin)

 

Indianapolis apartment complexes all have ponds as the land used to be swampy and we have geese everywhere. They like to stare at their reflections in plate glass windows of stores, offices, and factories. Then then get territorial and want to charge after you. And don’t ask them to get out of the way of your car. They seem to really like human civilization and life on easy street....

 

I enjoy seeing these Canadian Geese in flight and out for a swim. They do leave evidence behind when they they take a stroll around the park and I'm sure they feed the fish.