Baby Canada Geese

[Dee]

Just got home from a coffee in the park visit with Moe75 (our first of the season), where, we came upon this Canada goose family feasting on the new grass. So adorable that I just had to share this. :) Neither Moe nor I had ever seen their babies before.

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d149/danielmarkskelton/Photo%20Shoebox%20II/goosebabies.jpg

[snakegrl]

OK, ready? 1...2...3...everybody awwwwwww. Really, they are just adorable. Thanks for sharing this Dee.:)

[Eva]

Yes, they are! I am much less scared of these animals. Even though they are bigger...

Eva

[Dee]

Did you notice the size of their little goose feet?

:)

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d149/danielmarkskelton/Photo%20Shoebox%20II/monsterCanadagoosebabyfeet.jpg

[Eva]

They call him Flipper, Flipper...

Eva

[hoops]

reminds me of a scene i watch for a few weeks about three years ago. I was involuntarily enhoused in The New york Presbetirian hsopital for the mentally ill and one day early on in my stay i was looking out the window and i noticed a family of wild geese strolling across the large yard unfettered by the students and doctors coming and going. The next day the very same geese making the very same path across the yard. This went on for days and finally i got to ask someone who would listen why this happens. It seems that the environm,ental studies classes would obsef=rve these geese every year and thioer paths . And tho they never made contact with the animals they grew accustomed to seeing the students and comfortable having thier kids around them. it was a cool site and they were so darned cute

[Bat]

There were wild geese nesting all over where I used to work. One day I was walking along and not paying any attention to where I was walking, when I heard, "IIIIISSSSSSS, IIIISSSSSSSSSSSSS!!"
There, right in front of me, was the biggest mama goose I had seen, and a lot closer than I wanted her to be...she had 5 baby geese, and I was obliviously walking right into the gaggle! She let me know, in very vehement hissings, that it was not the thing to do. I immediately backed off and apologised profusely. She seemed to think that I was a decent sort, and with a slightly dirty look at my retreating hulk, she resumed teaching the little ones whatever lesson I had interrupted.
They are no fun to tangle with, as they can give one a good drubbing with their wing bones...a swan can break your arm, and I imagine a goose can bruise one badly.
I loved to watch them teach the little ones how to fly, and then the finer points of how to fly in formation, spot and dodge utility lines and poles, wheel and spin around buildings, fly for a little bit, then slightly longer periods until the babies were almost up to full strength for the long migration flights.
They're very good parents...that is, they are if they are there when the baby is hatched. If the baby has the misfortune to hatch in the heat of the sun when mama is out foraging, she does not recognize it as her own and will eat it. Not nice.

[moe75]

Yeah, they are real mean hombres Bat. But the biggest thing to avoid with Canada geese are their meadow muffins. Dee didn't tell you the part about tiptoing thru the tulips to avoid the the CGoose meadow muffins :D

Dee, sing us a song about the CGoose meadow muffins.

:D

[KarenSews2]

but given all the MESS they make, and their nasty temperment, please keep all the Canada geese on YOUR side of the border, Dee! :D

[Dee]

LOL Children have much to teach us, Karen. Things like, how to get along with poop-making gooses.

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d149/danielmarkskelton/Photo%20Shoebox%20II/bigandlittlefeedingthebirds.jpg

[Eva]

Well, this is all true...

But what mother would not hiss at you when you are coming too close to her children?

And the not rtegocnising and eating the loittle ones. No, it is not nice. But it is nature. Has nothing to do with being mean.

Eva