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don’t think this will count towards Brian s contest, this is me a few years back feeding cracked corn near the place i worked, the Geese got to know when I had the bag of corn and would rush over to me. It was a bad winter and we had snow cover for long time. Vijay
I love Canadian Geese. We saw them in the fields around our house this morning and along the parkway in Reno today. I really enjoy watching their parenting behavior. They nest around here so we get to see the total loyalty the parents exhibit toward one another and the care they take in rearing the kids.
Colleen
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I might be able to change your views, Colleen.
We live on a 9 acre “lake” which is owned by Canada geese most of the year. When the windows are open at night we are serenaded by over 100 and we often have 25 or so feeding in the back yard. Then one must tiptoe to the edge of the water, avoiding the little green fertilizer plugs. A fishline strung about chest high will keep them out. They are too stupid to fly over it.
There are services here which specialize in chasing them off, mostly for apartment complexes and golf courses and usually using border collies. (Now there is a magnificent animal.) In the spring these services find nests and shake the eggs, else we would be completely overrun. There seems to be no permanent way to shoo them off. There are chemicals which are expensive. Strangely, inflated alligator/ crocodile toys are said work for a while. They won’t walk close to the shore area where there is cover of cattails.
But a pair of them is indeed a regal sight.
George Dorner
Kathleen
LOL George I thought to tell her the same thing; anyone living near large populations of these pests will agree. When you can’t play your favorite golf course for the goose “poop” to be plain spoken it is a sad thing. At one of our local parks the children can’t play because of the same thing; some days there are way over 100 of the things around a small lake there. Phyllis
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