Well, clearly you all must live in some weird places. I’m in Alaska and we love our Canadian Geese. They arrive in the Spring, They eat weeds and bugs doing a great job of weeding our gardens. They taste great and have been eaten by folks up here for more generations than you have seen in the lower-48. Keep them coming. I don’t mind walking 10 feet out of my way to let these geese go about their business. And, BTW, they are great at providing natural fertilizer to my flower fields.
Ah yes, my mother had a similar experience. The family had a duck. They played with it and chased it around. When dinner time came, nobody could chow down the duck meat.
You cannot have a personal relationship with your food.
Not gonna lie, I thought your post was gonna go in a waaayyyy different direction.
I mean, scummy Wall St. stockbrokers aren’t most people’s friends, but … dang, dude. Harsh.
Does Chicago qualify as “weird”?
Part of the issue, as others have pointed out, is that, in our area, a lot of the Canada geese aren’t migratory anymore. They stick around year-round, pooping and hissing and being a pain in the backside.
I still can’t figure out which way that post did go, much less all the ways it might have gone. I’m obviously honking up the wrong tree here trying to understand this one.
Yeah, I’m not sure what he meant either. Maybe he meant stuffing as many geese droppings as possible into Wall Street headquarters?
I thought that maybe he meant that since the Occupy folks tended to occupy public parks all around the country that perhaps the RW authorities could simply obtain some geese and drop them off in the same parks. Soon enough the geese will have driven off the human riff-raff and nobody would / could blame the RW authorities for doing so. But the good clean citizens of 'Merika would be rid of those stinky goose-shit covered hippies. Without having to pay for any police overtime or jail space.
But that’s just my WAG.
An activity with a high potential to backfire.
“Got all those geese loaded in the back Vinnie?”
“Yeah, they’re sleeping quietly.”
“Alright let’s get going, those protestors are never going to know…hey, what’s that sound?”
“I dunno, I think I see something moving around…HONNNKKK…ahhhh!”
All they’ll find is a wrecked vehicle, two bodies and a lot feathers and goose shit.
Geese are very talkative creatures. But they never spill a secret. When it comes to ratting out a friend or spoiling a plot their beaks are sealed.
Here they were just today in that small field I mentioned in the OP. Before I even started the thread, I noticed that the horses, llamas, alpacas, and sheep who usually graze here keep well away when the geese show up.
I don’t remember ever being hissed at by a Canada goose. Swans, on the other hand…
Saw an odd ball goose today on the riverbank hanging near the Canada geese looked like a cross between a goose and a swan. I think it was a Snow Goose.
It still feels like early Spring here in downstate NY, rather than sunny May (rainy and chilly today, 50 degrees) but it’s gosling season. On my way to and from work I pass a road with undeveloped open space where the geese nest. Usually, I see goslings by early April, but today is the first day this year that I’ve seen them. They weren’t very big, so they must have hatched just a few days ago. I would think that they’re cute if I could forget that they’ll grow up to be big annoying geese.
And waiting in my car at a traffic light this afternoon, I saw 2 Canada geese cross at the crosswalk. Many thoughts went through my head (Smart geese! They know to cross at the crosswalk! No, it’s just a coincidence. If the light turns while they’re crossing will I wait so I don’t run them over? Maybe I wish I could run them over but it would be too risky and messy…) So many thoughts, in fact, that I made a poll about it:
Oh yeah? What about the holiday season?
I looked at that post and the first thing I saw was
You’re waiting at a traffic light and see 2 Canada geese cross at the crosswalk. You think: poll
and I wondered for a minute if I was in the thread Tell me you’re a Doper without telling me you’re a Doper.
Another goose poll:
I’m on TDY, and was walking along the Arkansas River in Wichita, Kansas today. Canada Geese everywhere. When I walked by the geese w/ babies, they really hissed at me. Was half expecting them to attack me.
Why do they insist to nest in areas where there’s lots of human traffic?
Humans are kind of all over the place these days. We’ve gotten hard to avoid.
Because humans have created landscaping, with well-mowed grassy areas, and man-made ponds, that the geese love.
Also, they are dumb as posts.
And the other animals don’t like them either; it isn’t just us. When they gather on the small pasture of the school farm down the road, you can see how the farm animals give them a wide berth. During the wet season the slight depression in in the middle of this pasture often fills up, and of course that’s very attractive to them.