This is a first for me. Was walking a back field and saw a lone Goose getting aggressive with me. I was thinking what the heck, I don’t see a hen around here. Just happened to look up and this Goose has a nest in the crock of a live oak. Probably 15-18’ up!! Never seen this before. Also very early for Geese to set. We’ve got a couple in the normal spots by the pond, but Never ever seen one up a tree like this. Hope the babies can take a fall!
Pics are hard to see, but it’s the real thing. Counted a total of 165 geese last week in the hay fields. Too many!
and to add to this post, I believe this is going to be a bad year for mosquitoes!! darn things are already biting! even after this cool snap.
“If Bruce Jenner can keep his wiener and be called a woman, I can keep my firearms and be considered disarmed.”
BIG rats with wings… They say 10 geese will eat as much grass as one full grown cow. I could believe that. I’ve seen them devastate rye grass that Dad has planted for his cows.
“If Bruce Jenner can keep his wiener and be called a woman, I can keep my firearms and be considered disarmed.”
I got no use for cats or geese. Think it should be open season on anything that reproduces that much and craps all over everything without any consideration.
We as a society have managed to somewhat control the population of deer and dogs, but for some reason we can’t get a grasp on geese and cats.
Fred, is that a Canada goose nest? Never heard or seen that before. At the peak Maryland had 750,000 Canadian geese overwinter here in the 1970-80s, since declined to about 190,000 & now we have a significant population of resident geese & even have a resident geese hunting season. Seems like every place that has a water source has at least a pair of geese here year round. Golf courses loathe them. When permitted, you can have them removed & re-locate or donated to food centers. They were a good source of revenue for Md. in the hayday but locals got very effective in harvesting. The better you were the more money followed, we went from a 3 bird limit per man to a 5 year hunting ban. I still love to hunt them, nothing better than a bunch backstrokin over your decoys with their feet out. Cooked in a crockpot all day & served with mashed taters, peas & gravy, umm umm good! If you get a clear up-close photo I’d sure like to show my huntin buddies cuz they wouldn’t believe it.
Fred, is that a Canada goose nest? Never heard or seen that before. At the peak Maryland had 750,000 Canadian geese overwinter here in the 1970-80s, since declined to about 190,000 & now we have a significant population of resident geese & even have a resident geese hunting season. Seems like every place that has a water source has at least a pair of geese here year round. Golf courses loathe them. When permitted, you can have them removed & re-locate or donated to food centers. They were a good source of revenue for Md. in the hayday but locals got very effective in harvesting. The better you were the more money followed, we went from a 3 bird limit per man to a 5 year hunting ban. I still love to hunt them, nothing better than a bunch backstrokin over your decoys with their feet out. Cooked in a crockpot all day & served with mashed taters, peas & gravy, umm umm good! If you get a clear up-close photo I’d sure like to show my huntin buddies cuz they wouldn’t believe it.
Yes canadian. Not much light for a pic and all you can see of her is the head. If not for the mad Daddy that wouldn’t leave I would have never spotted her.
We counted 165 of them in one of the hay fields last week. All I’ve seen for babies have been 3-5, but last year we had two hens with 13 and one with 12, several others having 6-8. Must have been a good year for em.
“If Bruce Jenner can keep his wiener and be called a woman, I can keep my firearms and be considered disarmed.”
