Canada Geese

[kcflhrc]

The FLy Way has probably changed some as well as the warmer temps. We have plenty of those nasty bastards here if you want some.

 

[stuckmotor]

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!

If they manage to scratch up enough money to fly south, could you tell them to go to Mexico?

 

[buickanddeere]

Two long cold wet springs has reduced the hatch and population of all birds .

 

[nybirdman]

All geese are very late moving this year due to the warm weather up North.Saw my first flocks of snow geese(first week in Jan.) and they are at least two months later than normal.

 

[Looking4new]

For you people having a problem with getting goosed, I mean geese in general. Kill the female, the male will leave.
https://youtu.be/eRd2Eu2SyRU

 

[Tig]

I live on the migration path. Many geese are still hanging out and I have not seen many flocks on the move yet. A flock of migrating trumpeter swans even hung out here for a month. Usually they pass quite quickly in fall.
It has been warm and we have not had sustained freezing weather yet. The bay was open yesterday and freezing up again today.
Goose numbers could also be down in part due to the past two hard winters. Invasive mute swan populations had boomed and they cleaned out the limited food supply. The first year the swans died off about %20. Early waterfowl on return migration suffered the same fate. Nothing to eat. It was quite the nasty flotilla of dead waterfowl down the river in spring.
Geese nest around here and in spring and the young families come eat my dandylions and crap in my yard. I call them the weed and feed crew. Come late June they have worn out their welcome and I reclaim my yard for the summer season. They are ready move on by then.
Mute swans also may be an additional factor in that they disrupt waterfowl nesting. Mutes claim huge territories and can be quite intolerant of other creatures floating around, even those creatures that might be holding a beer.

 

[Gary Fowler]

For you people having a problem with getting goosed, I mean geese in general. Kill the female, the male will leave.
https://youtu.be/eRd2Eu2SyRU

Not being a male Canadian goose, how do you propose that we tell which is male and which is female, they both look exactly alike. Only Canadian geese can tell the sex of each other and sometimes I wonder about that.

 

[Wagtail]

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

I have done this, Steve, but only as a long-term experiment as to the benefits of Inverted V Pallet Structures.

However I believe that I can tentatively report that, as a Canada Goose repellent, it is working brilliantly. I've not recorded or seen one Canada Goose here in Tasmania.

It also appears to work for tigers! Not one sighting... which is a relief!

Note: I'll re-post these findings in the "Pallets in Field" thread.