Canadian Geese are at once fascinating and a menace. They mate for life. They are beautiful in flight and gliding across water. Yet,they land in an ungainly almost comical manner using their webbed feet for brakes.
When they land,the couple builds their nest together. After laying their eggs, both alternate between feeding each other and sitting on the nest. When anything gets too close one parent begins a hissing sound, assumes an attack mode with his/her long neck, spreads its wings wide and runs directly at the intruder. People have been held hostage in their home and car by their menacing manner.
I was startled recently to spot a goose standing silently, neck tall under a shady street in the city. I wondered where it came from? I asked a neighbor if he had seen geese in the area. He said, "Not in years." When he turned around, all he could say was "Oh my God!" And with good reason. when the eggs hatch, the small, fuzzy, cute ducklings will form a line and follow their parents as they learn to swim, grow to full size and poop all over the place.
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Hi Bev,
ReplyDeleteOnce again, I so enjoyed reading your blog. But I could not help noticing a couple of funny blunders in the last paragraph of the last blog about the geese...Does a goose (or anyone else for that matter) stand under a shady street, or under a tree on a shady street? And is the progeny of a goose couple called a duckling or, perhaps, a gosling?
Love you,
Vicki