Canada Goose vs bald eagle

[argonsagas]

I have a 12 gauge................wish I could take every one of them out I can see.

I, too, have had thoughts like that, although I do not own a 12gauge, or anything else.

There is a public park that backs onto the schoolyard where my children go and it is not unusual to see forty to fifty geese on the grass.

No, not today, as the grass is under the snow, but that is melting and Spring is near.

the most I have counted was seventy.
Their excrement is maddening, but they are a protected species and we are not permitted to harm them.
.

[rphillips]

Protected here too, protected species and why for such a nuisance whos populations aren't in danger nor decreasing. I've never been impressed with goose poop around our lakes, and this protection just keeps making it worse.

[LAB3]

Protected here too, protected species and why for such a nuisance whos populations aren't in danger nor decreasing. I've never been impressed with goose poop around our lakes, and this protection just keeps making it worse.

Not to mention their *poop* creates the perfect medium for the parasites that cause swimmers itch to flourish in. Up where I used to live in NW lower Michigan there's an awful lot of inland lakes where the goose population and the associated swimmers itch make it so you don't want to swim in them.

Then there's the lakes where the "old money" out of Chicago and Detroit have their 15,000 square foot "cottages" They've tried every way possible to scare off the geese from their yards and the lakes in general, thousands of dollars thrown at a problem that could be resolved in a week or two by some of the locals for FREE if they where allowed to.

PS: Guess I haven't kept up on what's going on up there!

https://www.mlive.com/environment/2024/10/lethal-goose-roundup-authorized-as-birds-thrive-in-michigan-cities-and-suburbs.html

[oldGSfan]

Interesting facts

Six of the listings I looked at for the world's highest flying birds show species that vary in high-flying ability across a range from heights of 10000 feet to 37000 feet.

The other day I was hanging out with my son and he said to check out the sky - it was amazing with different cloud formations over the local mountains. Then his eyes caught a black object and he said "What is that!". It was moving fast and darting around. His eyes are 100x better than mine. He started speculating that it was a military plane, then after a couple sharp turns, a UFO. After looking a bit, I located it, and then another joined. I said "It's a bird. Well, birds now" hahaha. I figured with such weather conditions there were major updrafts. Hawk or buzzard, too far to tell.

So I went from being dad the geezer (as is his usual view) to dad the experienced fellow who knows that birds and weather act strangely together. He had no idea they could be that high.

They could have used these old eyes in New Jersey in November. Haven't heard a tweet since around December.

[Tazman001]

I, too, have had thoughts like that, although I do not own a 12gauge, or anything else.

There is a public park that backs onto the schoolyard where my children go and it is not unusual to see forty to fifty geese on the grass.

No, not today, as the grass is under the snow, but that is melting and Spring is near.

the most I have counted was seventy.
Their excrement is maddening, but they are a protected species and we are not permitted to harm them.
.

I also have a really sweet Canadian .22. Made in the 1930s - 40s era. Cooey model 75. No serial number. unnecessary back then.