Wet Backs

Brooklyn1 wrote:



Not exactly a flock!

They're a PITA when they migrate through here, holding up traffic, left
and right, without a care (small brains). They used to settle down at my
pool for a few days during the north migration and spend the whole time
trying to dive through the loop-loc pool cover in hopes of fish. Too
stupid! The reservoir is only a mile away! After 10 years they finally
wised up.

Oh Canada!!!

Andy
 
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:18:38 -0500, Andy wrote:


Canada geese have a far higher IQ than you... Canada geese don't go
after fish... they're strict vegetarians. And Canada geese don't
migrate on the ground, what does your pea brain think those wings are
for. duh
 
Brooklyn1 wrote:



Back to your cynical old self I see.

What surprised me the most is there's very little sky poolside and for
them to pick my pool surrounded by 150' white pines made it a very small
target from the sky. Why they'd sit there for days with no food, I have
no idea.

DUH! Of course they fly. Only every year they camp out around town for
days. I hear lots of reports by PD on the scanner about Canada geese
stopping traffic often during their stop over.

Canada geese are not smart birds. Most birds have very small brains. All
they have to think about is finding food to eat, not getting eaten and
reproducing.

Sometimes you don't sound smarter than a Canada goose!

Andy
 
On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 07:52:13 -0600, Janet Bostwick
wrote:


You're welcome.

That same pair has been arriving here for nine years now, they'll soon
be building their nest. Sometimes there are over a hundred here. I
can't really tell one from another until they walk, each has a
distinctive gait, so I can recognize those two even from a distance.
Yesterday I bought another new tree for celebrating Arbor Day, it'll
be arriving for planting as soon as it can be dug from the field at
the nursery, maybe two weeks... Paperbark Maple - Acer grisseum.
http://www.hort.uconn.edu/plants/a/acegri/acegri1.html
 
On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 12:06:19 -0400, Brooklyn1 wrote:
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I've never heard of a Paperbark Maple. I would never have guessed it
was a maple from the foliage and bark.
Janet
 
On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 12:03:42 -0700 (PDT), Bryan wrote:



We've had about 20,000 fly over in the last week, and yes they will eat the odd
small insect if there's no other food available, never saw them eat minnows.
 
On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 10:43:01 -0600, Janet Bostwick
wrote:


There are many types of maples, not all look like the common sugar
maple and silver maple... Japanese maples don't look very mapley
either and there are hundreds of varieties of those. The Paperbark
maple is somewhat rare, and pricy.
 
In article ,
[email protected] says...

They will also chase college students and can produce a truly amazing
quantity of crap. There is a pond on the University of Connecticut
campus that has a large resident goose population. The students call it
"goose shit pond".

The general consensus is that the solution to the problem is goose for
dinner until the supply runs out, however it's a college campus and
there are always enough protestors to block actually doing it.
 
On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 19:32:42 -0400, "J. Clarke" wrote:


When I worked for the military our gym was usually the stop on their way north.
Every night I secured the building by walking the perimeter making sure doors
were locked. Some nights I'd go around the south end and be attacked by the odd
goose, there were bushes all around the building and some had already begain
nesting. Scares the hell out of you when 20lbs. of wings attacks you in the
dark. Even worse in the fall because they're protecting their young.

Yes goose shit is disgusting.
 
"J. Clarke" wrote:



Canada geese, not being raptors, we didn't count their migration on a
steady basis but, we charted them when they flew over in great numbers
and reported them to other migration counts further on, who did.

Best,

Andy
 
On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 19:32:42 -0400, "J. Clarke"
wrote:


Obviously those students are known as goose shit for brains... fact is
all those student's brains combined can't equal one goose brain...
Canada geese are smart.
 
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