Popular Post sheep_herder Posted February 3, 2020 Popular Post Share #1 Posted February 3, 2020 Did not have enough time to really do them justice. These are a few taken before the evening feeding. 5 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted February 3, 2020 Share #2 Posted February 3, 2020 Wonderful pictures! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted February 3, 2020 Share #3 Posted February 3, 2020 I love watching them take off or land. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie Posted February 3, 2020 Share #4 Posted February 3, 2020 2 hours ago, Airehead said: I love watching them take off or land. They often fly over my house very low. Lots of honking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted February 3, 2020 Share #5 Posted February 3, 2020 We have geese. They come all the way from Canada to poop on our paved trails. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 3, 2020 Share #6 Posted February 3, 2020 SH do you get snow geese out your way? Usually in late December early January we usually have large flicks of snows. I don’t recall seeing them this year. Wonder if the warm winter has kept them up north? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder Posted February 3, 2020 Author Share #7 Posted February 3, 2020 16 minutes ago, Zackny said: SH do you get snow geese out your way? Usually in late December early January we usually have large flicks of snows. I don’t recall seeing them this year. Wonder if the warm winter has kept them up north? We get a few, but it is seldom. They usually stay further east in North Dakota. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parr8hed Posted February 3, 2020 Share #8 Posted February 3, 2020 Great pics, but I hate geese. When I worked at Deam Lake years ago as a lifeguard we had a dive platform that was about 75 yds or so off the beach. You had to swim out from the beach to use the diving boards. Every morning when you went to open the diving area you had to swim out with your normal crap, (bullhorn, whistle, PFD and chair cushion) and then you had to have a big broom as well to sweep all of the goose shit off the boards and dock. So the first few minutes of each shift were spent sweeping goose shit out into the water. Then you would put the gear up, climb up in the chair, blow the whistle and watch all of the people swim out covered in goose shit. You normally spend 15 minutes at each chair, rotating through all 3 or 4 and then spend 30 minutes off but when you open the dive platform you always stayed out there for the whole 45 or 60 minutes to give the goose shit time to dissipate before you swim back in. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn Posted February 3, 2020 Share #9 Posted February 3, 2020 1 hour ago, donkpow said: We have geese. They come all the way from Canada to poop on our paved trails. I don’t remember your location but I remember the paved trail out of Buffalo that had so much goose crap on it you couldn’t tell it was paved. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted February 3, 2020 Share #10 Posted February 3, 2020 3 minutes ago, Longjohn said: I don’t remember your location but I remember the paved trail out of Buffalo that had so much goose crap on it you couldn’t tell it was paved. Dayton Ohio along the Great Miami River. Actually we live at the confluence of several rivers. The local park system is called Five Rivers Metro Parks. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie Posted February 3, 2020 Share #11 Posted February 3, 2020 Maybe I will donate my 500k charity $$$ to goose poop mitigation and prevention efforts. We definitely need to make Canada pay for it! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn Posted February 3, 2020 Share #12 Posted February 3, 2020 27 minutes ago, donkpow said: Dayton Ohio along the Great Miami River. Actually we live at the confluence of several rivers. The local park system is called Five Rivers Metro Parks. In 2016 I did the Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure. It started that year down near Cincinnati and made a big seven day loop. The first day we rode some paved trail near Dayton. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffJim Posted February 3, 2020 Share #13 Posted February 3, 2020 I went on an organized bird watch Saturday. There was a clump of about 200 Canada Geese, too far away to see with the naked eye. With my 8X binoculars it was too far away to see much more than lumps, but my new camera was able to get a clear enough picture to see 5 or 6 Tundra Swans in amongst the Canada's. My next step is to figure out how to get the pictures from my camera to my smart phone so I can share them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD Posted February 3, 2020 Share #14 Posted February 3, 2020 The last couple weeks, I haven't seen the hundreds of Canada geese that are wintering in the park where I walk Jake. My brother said he's seen them, so I'll see if I can spot some today during our partly-sunny, 62F walk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffJim Posted February 3, 2020 Share #15 Posted February 3, 2020 3 hours ago, BuffJim said: I went on an organized bird watch Saturday. There was a clump of about 200 Canada Geese, too far away to see with the naked eye. With my 8X binoculars it was too far away to see much more than lumps, but my new camera was able to get a clear enough picture to see 5 or 6 Tundra Swans in amongst the Canada's. My next step is to figure out how to get the pictures from my camera to my smart phone so I can share them. Also saw a Northern Shrike. The photographer was in our group. His picture of this bird came out better than mine. I'll see if he posts one of the Tundra Swans. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parr8hed Posted February 3, 2020 Share #16 Posted February 3, 2020 4 hours ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said: Maybe I will donate my 500k charity $$$ to goose poop mitigation and prevention efforts. We definitely need to make Canada pay for it! I'd work on buying a new phone first. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie Posted February 3, 2020 Share #17 Posted February 3, 2020 1 hour ago, Parr8hed said: I'd work on buying a new phone first. Hey, I am getting the del sol’s hood release cable fixed. That is more urgent. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder Posted February 4, 2020 Author Share #18 Posted February 4, 2020 Glad I took time to photograph them yesterday, as no geese were in our pasture today. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted February 4, 2020 Share #19 Posted February 4, 2020 A goose pic from April 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder Posted February 4, 2020 Author Share #20 Posted February 4, 2020 Here are a few more from yesterday. It is fun to catch them in positions that one can easily miss when just watching them. It is also nice to be able to see how they use their feathers just as pilots use the flaps on the planes to control the landings. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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