Canada Geese

[stuckmotor]

I don't seem to see or hear as many Canada geese as in recent years. Has anyone else noticed this? I think we might be experiencing a goose shortage.

 

[oosik]

I would agree. The goose count appears to be down. However, I've seen these fluctuations previously and have never heard a rational explanation. The swan population is also down this year.

One explanation I've heard - changing weather patterns have changed migratory routes and while seasonal fluctuations will always happen - the total numbers are still OK - they are just in different locations. ???

 

[RandyT]

Due to warmer temperatures, the water hasn't frozen over in the northern states, The geese don't migrate as long as they have open water. Just starting to see snow geese around my area, that are somewhat migrating, but we have only have temps low enough to freeze the lakes about 3 times this winter

Don't see many Canadian geese now a days. Mostly due to the fact cities like Chicago has suburbs that have small heated ponds, therefore the geese stay there for the winter.

 

[stuckmotor]

Thanks for the explanations, guys. I'm not complaining. It's been considerably more peaceful around here without the noisy beasts.

 

[davesl708]

Can't seem to throw a rock without hitting a goose here. Goose poop everywhere.
I have seen a few flying south last month but are not moving much from here till this last cold snap.

 

[smstonypoint]

I don't seem to see or hear as many Canada geese as in recent years. Has anyone else noticed this? I think we might be experiencing a goose shortage.

Have you been placing pallets in an inverted V-pattern around your property? You will recall a claim that such pallet formations serve as a goose repellent.

Steve

 

[stuckmotor]

Steve,
I haven't but, I can't speak for my neignbors. If the goose population increaces by much, I might scare up a few inverted Vs.

 

[Looking4new]

with the Canadian $ at -35% that makes our dollar worth $0.65 to the US dollar, so the Canada geese are staying at home. They cannot afford to fly south. Lucky you guys!

 

[Gary Fowler]

No shortage of them here, year round residents. When we bought the place 6 years ago there were 2 mated pairs and each year they hatched 3-5 goslings on an island in our pond but none ever left. There are dozens of small to large ponds around our place and these geese migrate from ours to neighbors daily but almost always come back to ours at night. Last count was now 42 and we have taken 5 for eating during normal goose season. Brother in Law took on 14 ducks last summer who have now cleaned out the ponds of edible weeds so the geese are not coming here so much now but we still see them daily in their fly overs. They sure get noisy during spring mating season though and this is an all day, all night thing.

 

[dmccarty]

with the Canadian $ at -35% that makes our dollar worth $0.65 to the US dollar, so the Canada geese are staying at home. They cannot afford to fly south. Lucky you guys!

:thumbsup::laughing::laughing::laughing:

Our geese are residents so they don't travel. They just seem to stay, eat, honk, poop and breed. :shocked:

I do love to to see them fly and hear their honking but they fly over/around our place so someone else has to deal with them on "land." :laughing::laughing::laughing: At work, they terrorize people in the parking lot when the stupid geese build nests in the medians. Then we play Dodge the Goose Poo getting into the building.

I have not noticed a change in numbers. I was looking at a huge gaggle of geese the other day that were bedded down in a farm field. Sure seemed like a gazillion geese in the gaggle.

Later,
Dan