Re: Well I finally got a shot of the geese, sorta.

Posted by Billy NY on April 12, 2013 at 06:10:28 from (72.226.79.200):

In Reply to: Well I finally got a shot of the geese, sorta. posted by Texasmark1 on April 12, 2013 at 03:57:04:

We never had them here, used to marvel at them when you caught a glimpse of a flock way up high, even more so if you heard them at night.

Part of this place was a big swamp or marsh, 20 acres or so with all those tufts or raised up thick clumps of grass with some pockets of water, some higher ground where you could walk. Beaver got in, raised and flooded the entire area, then the geese starting using this pond. One side borders what is now a causeway and the army corps of engineers considers it navigable, there was actually a set of barges in there when they rebuilt the road bed and installed sheet piling. The state now controls the water level, I kinda liked it when it was low, less stagnant now, don't get any mill foil or algae cover, adjacent field used to be larger.

Those geese will cover the entire pond at times, both snow and Canada. They established themselves here, and graze anything that is planted, theres a nice 30 acre field on another side of it, freshly planted in hay and those geese took almost 2/3rds of it, went right to weeds, farmer gave up on it for years, just last year, it was put in corn by another farmer, and they took the first hundred feet of it, all turned to weeds, fly over by the police thought it was marijuana LOL ! I had to chase them out of the oats every morning at sun up, fire warning shots, then they would hide on the other side of a knoll, take cover, even while shooting towards them. Then of course while the young still have a ways to go, they molt and are on foot, and will just strip anything you plant, I lost a nice clover patch to them one year. I have to get depredation permits for 25, then you need to get federal permits beyond that, there are so many of them, but protected. You have to report any kills, I mainly harass them out it is a pain in the @ss, you can't really spring plant anything near them the oats seemed to recover or not be adversely affected but the sight of them in the field when its only inches high makes you cringe. This year being cold longer, no forage, they were all over the lawns by the house, lots of droppings, same with the nearby field, free fertilizer, finally some green is up, now they have forage.

I used to collect all the young, chase the adults away, hold em overnight, release in the morning, and all kinds of things similar to harass the heck out of them, it sort of works to keep them off the field, they all find each other by sound again, funny, sometimes young will dive and not come up again, really odd thing I have noticed. One of the groups I had must have imprinted on me, followed me everywhere, right into the garage and to the back where there is a man cave/sitting area TV, they were funny, was hard to let em go, make good watchdogs, that is for sure but boy are they a pain if you have crops, I kind wish they were gone, I have tried to avoid conflict, even thought it would be easier to shoot 25 of them, I mostly chase them out, once in awhile you get a real tough male when they have young, pretty darned brave and or brazen.

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