Mother Goose?
We’re getting really old… (What do you mean getting? I’m sure Gina will comment)
We live in a community with several lakes, barrancas (flood channels with grass bottoms) thriving with rabbits, possums, raccoons, paddling ducks, geese and an occasional starving coyote…it’s also a feeding ground for noisy crows who eat whatever they can find, including rabbits and dead things…coyotes travel the barrancas and enter our community through concrete drain pipes from an adjacent community…they fear no one and look a bit underweight… residents walking their dogs have been seen carrying sticks and nine irons...
The rabbit population is also dwindling…
For the past few months geese have been walking around the streets of our neighborhood unafraid of cars and people, like they owned the place…they stand at nearby street corners maybe looking for coyotes sneaking in in cars...
Our street is adjacent to a barranca and from our front balcony we can see everything…
Yesterday we watched the geese walking up and down the street and barranca…some of them seemed to be fighting each other while others were cruising back and forth three feet off the street…it may have been the same bunch who were doing all the work...they're hard to tell apart...
Our street is adjacent to a barranca and from our front balcony we can see everything…
Yesterday we watched the geese walking up and down the street and barranca…some of them seemed to be fighting each other while others were cruising back and forth three feet off the street…it may have been the same bunch who were doing all the work...they're hard to tell apart...
I was watching golf and reading the LA Times unclear of what they were up to when I got the computer out…
A goose’s life span is 20 years and most weigh 20 to 25 pounds,
A bunch of geese is a gaggle, a baby goose is a gosling …
Charles Dickens gave them away as Christmas presents…
There are migratory and resident geese…the migrates come from Canada and fly 2 to 3000 miles annually…the residentials were either born here and don’t know how to migrate...if a migratory goose gets injured here they became residents…
Mating season is February and March…
Nesting season is from March to May and they hide their nests of eggs in the brush and rooftops…
A bunch of geese is a gaggle, a baby goose is a gosling …
Charles Dickens gave them away as Christmas presents…
There are migratory and resident geese…the migrates come from Canada and fly 2 to 3000 miles annually…the residentials were either born here and don’t know how to migrate...if a migratory goose gets injured here they became residents…
Mating season is February and March…
Nesting season is from March to May and they hide their nests of eggs in the brush and rooftops…
Because geese mate for life the ‘fathers’ guard the nests by walking and flying around as to not give away the location of nests to predators…
We sat in awe of our surroundings...
We sat in awe of our surroundings...
Now I know there are sometimes better things to do than playing golf?
3 comments:
I love your frequent use of the word 'barranca'...remember we didn't know what that man was saying when he told us not to play in it?!
Geese live 20 years...very interesting. From what I remember they are pretty mean too!
This is a TERRIFIC post
T double E double R double I...
(only Allison will get that!)
:)
That Charles Dickens is a classy fellow...seriously.
Oh, and to finish my mom's quote:
"double F, double I, double C, C, C"
Julie, I get it too. I did see Charlottes Web. Nice blog dad. I now know more about geese than I thought I ever would. You've been hanging around mom too much. She LOVES geese.
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