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Post by featherduster on Apr 1, 2021 12:57:20 GMT -5
But this is better.
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Post by featherduster on Apr 1, 2021 13:00:52 GMT -5
In front of the Meijer store in Valparaiso. They say she has been there for about a week. Her mate is standing guard in the parking lot.  |
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Post by jjas on Apr 1, 2021 13:16:00 GMT -5
It might not be popular on the forum, but geese are a pain in the rear end.
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Post by treetop on Apr 1, 2021 14:57:06 GMT -5
In front of the Meijer store in Valparaiso. They say she has been there for about a week. Her mate is standing guard in the parking lot. They have not started here yet my mom has an island on her pond that at least one pair nest on every year. I swear as soon as they do we will have one more snow then that’s it. They are trying but not committed yet probably within a week I’d say the way the are acting here around my pond |
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Post by MuzzleLoader on Apr 1, 2021 15:28:43 GMT -5
Been sitting for couple weeks here already.
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Post by featherduster on Apr 1, 2021 16:15:33 GMT -5
Treetop; that's the exact same thing here they have scouted out their possible nest site but she has not begun setting.
It's snowing today and by next week we will be in the 70's I expect her to start setting then.
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Post by beermaker on Apr 1, 2021 16:58:09 GMT -5
It might not be popular on the forum, but geese are a pain in the rear end. I struggle to think of a more useless creature. Two of my favorite fishing spots are overran with them. They crap everywhere and eat the shoreline vegetation, which causes erosion. One of the landowners tries to keep them away, but the idiot neighbor feeds them. I know a guy that has two large ponds in front of his house. He keeps a loaded rifle in the garage and shoots as many as he can whenever they are on his property. He lives in the woods completely out of sight from any road or neighbor. |
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Post by firstwd on Apr 1, 2021 18:09:33 GMT -5
It might not be popular on the forum, but geese are a pain in the rear end. I struggle to think of a more useless creature. Two of my favorite fishing spots are overran with them. They crap everywhere and eat the shoreline vegetation, which causes erosion. One of the landowners tries to keep them away, but the idiot neighbor feeds them. I know a guy that has two large ponds in front of his house. He keeps a loaded rifle in the garage and shoots as many as he can whenever they are on his property. He lives in the woods completely out of sight from any road or neighbor. Have you turned this poaching activity in? |
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Post by esshup on Apr 2, 2021 17:16:23 GMT -5
Fresh, free eggs!!!!
I have run a few pair off of the pond here already.
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Post by Russ Koon on Apr 3, 2021 10:41:15 GMT -5
A protective goose defending it's nest always reminds me of the one we had in our back yard. Our lot is on three levels of grass, divided by 8 foot high retaining walls and flower beds that seemed to be good idea when we were much younger and enjoyed working on them, but which were slowly converting to natural vegetation. One spring as I was mowing the second level, I was confronted with an angry momma who had been sitting on her nest that was just over the edge in the weeds. She stood her ground a few feet from her nest and I saw it was pretty full of eggs.
I thought it would be a neat picture, so I paused my mowing and went up to the house and grabbed my camera, and told the wife I wanted to try to get a pic of the nest, but I wasn't sure if I could get close enough without having to wrestle the goose with my other hand while trying to shoot. She wanted to help, so she grabbed a slice of bread and followed me out to distract the goose while I tried to get the shot. I kind of suspected that might not be the best plan, but no better one came to mind real quick, so we proceeded.
The momma still came off the nest a few feet and confronted me, even without the noisy lawnmower, and when I looked back to see where my backup was with the bread, she was holding the bread out as far as she could in front of her face and backing up the stairs to the house level, in her flannel nightgown and fuzzy slippers, with the gander hovering like a huge hummingbird just out of arms reach in front of her face, hissing and squawking and apparently showing no interest in the offered bread, either.
I regret not capturing a picture of her being backed up a flight of steps by that gander, but I was laughing too hard to even try to steady the camera in time 8^)
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Post by treetop on Apr 19, 2021 10:47:52 GMT -5
In front of the Meijer store in Valparaiso. They say she has been there for about a week. Her mate is standing guard in the parking lot. They have not started here yet my mom has an island on her pond that at least one pair nest on every year. I swear as soon as they do we will have one more snow then that’s it. They are trying but not committed yet probably within a week I’d say the way the are acting here around my pond See above post guess what they built a nest in the last week or so and she is sitting on it guess what’s coming tomorrow SNOW it just never seem to fail year after year it happens BTW if all holds true it’s our last snow for the year |
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Post by featherduster on Apr 19, 2021 13:02:59 GMT -5
I just returned from shopping at that store and she is still sitting on the nest and her mate is still standing guard.
It appears that they have a fan club of shoppers who enjoy seeing them.
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Post by Sasquatch on Apr 25, 2021 8:32:29 GMT -5
When you just have to drop that egg.
"Harold! We're landing! NOW!"
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Post by featherduster on Apr 25, 2021 12:51:20 GMT -5
Still on the nest this morning with her mate escorting everybody away from her.
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Post by treetop on Apr 30, 2021 19:23:10 GMT -5
Sitting here on the deck just watched mother goose walk 5 baby’s across the beach down at the pond I have no idea were they nested but it has to be in walking distance they can’t be very old maybe a week or so
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Post by esshup on Apr 30, 2021 22:32:27 GMT -5
Every day a single goose is on the pond it poops enough to grow 115# of algae.........
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Post by treetop on May 2, 2021 20:10:47 GMT -5
Every day a single goose is on the pond it poops enough to grow 115# of algae......... I did not realize it was that bad guess they are getting a go away gift |
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Post by esshup on May 2, 2021 20:20:50 GMT -5
Yup, it's that bad.
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Post by featherduster on May 29, 2021 13:40:08 GMT -5
This goose is still sitting on 4 eggs and the mate is still standing guard.
According to the cart handler she started on that nest March 26th and is still sitting on the same 4 eggs.
I am sure the eggs are dead but she doesn't know that.
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Post by treetop on May 29, 2021 15:33:40 GMT -5
This goose is still sitting on 4 eggs and the mate is still standing guard. According to the cart handler she started on that nest March 26th and is still sitting on the same 4 eggs. I am sure the eggs are dead but she doesn't know that. Any idea how long they will sit on a nest at sometime you’d think Mother Nature would tell her give up |
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