RODENTS??!!-Canada Geese?
I love those guys…note the ‘couple’ bringing up the rear!- SO cute….and notice the sunshine?
Well, THAT’S all gone. Winter’s here!
That picture made me laugh and made me feel so good. And glad folks can be seen still stopping for wildlife crossing the street.
Was the walk light on?
Geese are grazers and with hunting falling off and their predators diminished in number, they multiply exponentially. I’ve seen a flock come in and pick 40 acres of oats or barley clean (doing a better job than any combine!) overnight. So, while I don’t mind the sight of geese, I sure understand the ‘rodent’ comment from earlier. Oh, they don’t taste bad either.
…with hunting falling off…
Then do something about it. They’re very tasty.
“Very tasty” if you get them off the grain fields of Alberta. I’m not so taken with the ones that are feeding on lawns and beach grasses.
I don’t consider the ones feeding on lawns and beach grasses as a big problem like the ones feeding off the grain fields. The urban ones are probably no more of a problem than dogs when it comes to the ‘fertilizer’ they add. But then I don’t live in a city so I don’t have any experience with it.
Why did the goose cross the road?
To prove it wasn’t a chicken!
You can keep ’em. They’re an invasive pest outside Canada. Aka “Politician Goose”. All it does is gabble and shit.
Make way for goslings (a la Robert McCloskey’s Make Way for Ducklings!)
They get so thick in Winnipeg that people have resorted to putting up goose crossing signs on major thoroughfares. Nothing better than waiting for a gaggle of geese with their brood to get 3/4 of the way across the road, just to have some tool honk their horn to make them turn around and walk back to side they just came from – hissing all the way heh…
For urban centres, Canada Geese are like family from out of town. First it is nice to see them but after they take up permanent residence, eating, crapping and treating the place as their own private domain, the novelty wears off and they are indeed pests. Like grey seals, they are too cute to cull.
We were just down in Abbotsford for my Grandfathers funeral, and we decided to take the girls to the Vancouver Aquarium and The Old Spaghetti Factory in Gastown( my brother and I’s hangouts with Mom as children). We were stopped by the geese as well coming out of Stanley Park and it looks like the very same spot.
Here in the lower mainland they are considered by most as rats with wings.
Heading over to InSite….
Derek is right, the field is totally flattened and about the only thing you can do is disc it.
Gobi desert must have had razor blades for breakfast, sharp today.
If only the eco-nuts would follow the example and walk instead of flying.
The geese are the fore runners of the Critical Mass that swarms Vancouver streets on one friday of every month.
The Bicycle Loons could be controlled but as with the Geese we choose not to.
Notice the Fords had brakes that were functioning properly!
I think it a bit pretentious (well, Canadian) to suggest that this only happens in Canada, I’m sure Americans and others would be just as “nice”!
They’re always where I can’t hunt.
I remember shooting at one once just as it died of old age. Tough old buzzard. Haven’t bothered since but I’m not on any flyways.
They are not as bad as crows. Fortunately I took a crow out in east Vancouver early in this new year.
Baked goose breasts with apple jelly topping.
To die for ……..!
These damn feathered squatters make more public parkland unusable for picnic blankets and toddler walks from the tons of goose crap every year.
They NEED a predator, and it is us. I drive right at them every chance I get, and happilly turn the dog loose for a good chase …the geese are over-running us. Kill the bastards, eat ’em and/or feed ’em to “the poor”. If they refuse goosemeat, cut off their welfare …grrrrr!!!! I am SO sick of liberals, Liberals, Democrats, progressives, geese, greens, pilleated woodpeckers turning my majestic pines into toothpicks, the poor, the media, the morons, politicians, lardass paperpushing bureaucrats … I need to KILL something, such as a Canada goose in mid-crap in a park! …grrrrr!!!
>> I think it a bit pretentious (well, Canadian) to suggest that this only happens in Canada, I’m sure Americans and others would be just as “nice”!
Well, they’re Canada Geese. Even if they stop for them on the South Side of Chicago, in the baddest part of town, it’s still Canada Geese they are stopping for. So the world is getting more Canada 🙂
“They are not as bad as crows. Fortunately I took a crow out in east Vancouver early in this new year.”
Posted by: stephen ottridge at January 18, 2012 12:24 PM
You’ll pay for that. Crows bond, especially at the Crow Bar.
I love crows, and this Jack Handey bit has always cracked me up:
“The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.”
Canada geese are a problem and many have adapted so as NOT to migrate south in the winter.
The logical solution would be to allow them to be hunted in the winter in the parks … BUT the screams from the environmentalists would never allow that.
… and feeding them to the poor … never in Canada , and the problem only gets worse when the do gooders feed them !!! http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/06/18/new-york-solves-its-canada-goose-problem-by-feeding-them-to-pennsylvania%E2%80%99s-poor/
On a similarly related topic of nature losing fear of man … coyotes.
Read a recent article about a woman who was walking her two dogs in a park in Hamilton (Ont)and was surrounded by 4-5 coyotes of which two were juveniles. Luck for her she had two dogs with her.
It seems the humans learned nothing from the encounter , but the two juvenile coyotes learned that humans fear them. The next person may not be so lucky.
‘Agreed that Canada Geese are a damned nuisance. Years ago, they made a family trip to the Statue of Liberty unpleasant as there was no place to lay a picnic blanket because of goose poop all over the park.
They were also very aggressive when we decided to get our lunch out anyway. And, they’ve only been breeding, honking, and pooping ever since …
I hate crows because of the destruction they do to all the smaller birds at nesting time. Crows belong in farmers fields and country roads not in cities.
A couple of years ago a man and his daughter were killed on a motorcycle. Apparently, a girl had stopped her car in the middle of the road to shoo some ducks across and the bike smashed into it. Bring back #2 lead shot and have at these nuisances. As already stated, they’re quite tasty.
run those feathered rodents over damnit !!!
It was such a nice day, they thought they’d walk.
RODENTS??!!-Canada Geese?
I love those guys…note the ‘couple’ bringing up the rear!- SO cute….and notice the sunshine?
Well, THAT’S all gone. Winter’s here!
That picture made me laugh and made me feel so good. And glad folks can be seen still stopping for wildlife crossing the street.
Was the walk light on?
Geese are grazers and with hunting falling off and their predators diminished in number, they multiply exponentially. I’ve seen a flock come in and pick 40 acres of oats or barley clean (doing a better job than any combine!) overnight. So, while I don’t mind the sight of geese, I sure understand the ‘rodent’ comment from earlier. Oh, they don’t taste bad either.
…with hunting falling off…
Then do something about it. They’re very tasty.
“Very tasty” if you get them off the grain fields of Alberta. I’m not so taken with the ones that are feeding on lawns and beach grasses.
I don’t consider the ones feeding on lawns and beach grasses as a big problem like the ones feeding off the grain fields. The urban ones are probably no more of a problem than dogs when it comes to the ‘fertilizer’ they add. But then I don’t live in a city so I don’t have any experience with it.
Why did the goose cross the road?
To prove it wasn’t a chicken!
Here’s more proof that the USofA is run by crazy people:
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/va-ag-fears-dc-law-may-relocate-rat-families-virginia
You can keep ’em. They’re an invasive pest outside Canada. Aka “Politician Goose”. All it does is gabble and shit.
Make way for goslings (a la Robert McCloskey’s Make Way for Ducklings!)
They get so thick in Winnipeg that people have resorted to putting up goose crossing signs on major thoroughfares. Nothing better than waiting for a gaggle of geese with their brood to get 3/4 of the way across the road, just to have some tool honk their horn to make them turn around and walk back to side they just came from – hissing all the way heh…
For urban centres, Canada Geese are like family from out of town. First it is nice to see them but after they take up permanent residence, eating, crapping and treating the place as their own private domain, the novelty wears off and they are indeed pests. Like grey seals, they are too cute to cull.
We were just down in Abbotsford for my Grandfathers funeral, and we decided to take the girls to the Vancouver Aquarium and The Old Spaghetti Factory in Gastown( my brother and I’s hangouts with Mom as children). We were stopped by the geese as well coming out of Stanley Park and it looks like the very same spot.
Here in the lower mainland they are considered by most as rats with wings.
Heading over to InSite….
Derek is right, the field is totally flattened and about the only thing you can do is disc it.
Gobi desert must have had razor blades for breakfast, sharp today.
If only the eco-nuts would follow the example and walk instead of flying.
The geese are the fore runners of the Critical Mass that swarms Vancouver streets on one friday of every month.
The Bicycle Loons could be controlled but as with the Geese we choose not to.
Notice the Fords had brakes that were functioning properly!
I think it a bit pretentious (well, Canadian) to suggest that this only happens in Canada, I’m sure Americans and others would be just as “nice”!
They’re always where I can’t hunt.
I remember shooting at one once just as it died of old age. Tough old buzzard. Haven’t bothered since but I’m not on any flyways.
They are not as bad as crows. Fortunately I took a crow out in east Vancouver early in this new year.
Baked goose breasts with apple jelly topping.
To die for ……..!
These damn feathered squatters make more public parkland unusable for picnic blankets and toddler walks from the tons of goose crap every year.
They NEED a predator, and it is us. I drive right at them every chance I get, and happilly turn the dog loose for a good chase …the geese are over-running us. Kill the bastards, eat ’em and/or feed ’em to “the poor”. If they refuse goosemeat, cut off their welfare …grrrrr!!!! I am SO sick of liberals, Liberals, Democrats, progressives, geese, greens, pilleated woodpeckers turning my majestic pines into toothpicks, the poor, the media, the morons, politicians, lardass paperpushing bureaucrats … I need to KILL something, such as a Canada goose in mid-crap in a park! …grrrrr!!!
>> I think it a bit pretentious (well, Canadian) to suggest that this only happens in Canada, I’m sure Americans and others would be just as “nice”!
Well, they’re Canada Geese. Even if they stop for them on the South Side of Chicago, in the baddest part of town, it’s still Canada Geese they are stopping for. So the world is getting more Canada 🙂
“They are not as bad as crows. Fortunately I took a crow out in east Vancouver early in this new year.”
Posted by: stephen ottridge at January 18, 2012 12:24 PM
You’ll pay for that. Crows bond, especially at the Crow Bar.
I love crows, and this Jack Handey bit has always cracked me up:
“The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.”
Canada geese are a problem and many have adapted so as NOT to migrate south in the winter.
The logical solution would be to allow them to be hunted in the winter in the parks … BUT the screams from the environmentalists would never allow that.
… and feeding them to the poor … never in Canada , and the problem only gets worse when the do gooders feed them !!!
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/06/18/new-york-solves-its-canada-goose-problem-by-feeding-them-to-pennsylvania%E2%80%99s-poor/
On a similarly related topic of nature losing fear of man … coyotes.
Read a recent article about a woman who was walking her two dogs in a park in Hamilton (Ont)and was surrounded by 4-5 coyotes of which two were juveniles. Luck for her she had two dogs with her.
It seems the humans learned nothing from the encounter , but the two juvenile coyotes learned that humans fear them. The next person may not be so lucky.
‘Agreed that Canada Geese are a damned nuisance. Years ago, they made a family trip to the Statue of Liberty unpleasant as there was no place to lay a picnic blanket because of goose poop all over the park.
They were also very aggressive when we decided to get our lunch out anyway. And, they’ve only been breeding, honking, and pooping ever since …
I hate crows because of the destruction they do to all the smaller birds at nesting time. Crows belong in farmers fields and country roads not in cities.
A couple of years ago a man and his daughter were killed on a motorcycle. Apparently, a girl had stopped her car in the middle of the road to shoo some ducks across and the bike smashed into it. Bring back #2 lead shot and have at these nuisances. As already stated, they’re quite tasty.