Seen Any Geese Yet?

[Little Kopit]

Geese flying on at least 4-wheels or maybe MoHos with license plates for your province, coming up just to to their income tax reports?

How many these 'birds' have you seen?

[Little Kopit]

Geese flying on at least 4-wheels or maybe MoHos with license plates for your province, coming up just to to their income tax reports?

How many these 'birds' have you seen?

[TXiceman]

We have seen a bunch of out of state tags headed north here in Tomball, Texas. A few Canadian tags, but mostly mid-western USA. Looks like they are migrating back to the north country.

Why leave Texas this early. We have all of the wild flowers starting to bloom, red bud trees, and the Dogwood trees are beautiful in east Texas.

Ken

[Little Kopit]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Why leave Texas this early. We have all of the wild flowers starting to bloom, red bud trees, and the Dogwood trees are beautiful in east Texas. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>


'Cause there are flowers out north of the border too. & these geese might migrate one lake stop (cg) at a time to arrive here in time for April showers.

[brad03ca]

Gotta kinda agree with Ken here. I wouldn't be too anxious to get back home just yet. I'd want to see Green Grass and buds on the Magnolia before I came back. But then It all depends when your maximum six months are up...
A few weeks back we started seeing snow birds heading along the 401...

[Groveite]

WE came back from Tx a week ago...2 weeks earlier than we should have but that's only my opinion....a very distant 2nd place too!! Still calling for flurries here along Lake Huron and the snow blower is still gassed up....
Ian

[Little Kopit]

I can understand people coming back. I find the change of seasons some of the most enervating times of the year.

Aside from the fact that the 'low' season for cruises tends to be in April or about now, it just puzzles me why people go away when all the changes outside make things so interesting. I take differnt routes to work to see what's happening from how much snow has melted to how well the daffs and the crocuses are doing. (not to mention those other spring flowers such as the sprite cans previously hidden in snow banks).

& fall is just as much fun and the first snow fall too.......

[2Roadrunners]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Aside from the fact that the 'low' season for cruises tends to be in April or about now, it just puzzles me why people go away when all the changes outside make things so interesting </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Summer and winter are stagnant times, you wake up all is the same as the previous day...we are stagnant in life whereas season changes denote a passage of time. In the summer and winter I do not get old, I just stay where I'm at, but come spring or fall and I get antiquated FAST.

Another good reason to leave in early April is that just maybe your kids will take down your winter garage and untie your bushes. I've tried this idea for years...hasn't worked yet! It is like putting up a no trespassing sign in your garden for groundhogs and deer.

''The Roadsick Roadrunner''

[Little Kopit]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">It is like putting up a no trespassing sign in your garden for groundhogs and deer. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Do you mean the groundhogs and deer stay away or that they have discovered more succulent yummies?

Feel old when all of this new stuff is happening, nah you've got to be kidding. Right now, all this anticipation of change is making me itchy for it to happen.

New snow takes the old snow away. Yeah, I know that is supposed to be an April saying, but we have 10 cm of 'new' today, to be chased by rain!

[DriVer]

Did you know that everytime someone gets upset with the birds that they blame the "Canadian Geese"

I have to say that the geese are honking their way back north over my house they should be back up your way before too long.

[Little Kopit]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Did you know that everytime someone gets upset with the birds that they blame the "Canadian Geese" </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yep. Blame Canada. All two legged Canadians!!!

[brad03ca]

The Canadian Geese we get upset with here are the ones that stay all year. For what ever reason these geese don't fly south(tame?) The ones that are flying over your area DriVer are wild and don't spoil our urban parks and lakes, but don't stop till they get much farther north in the wilderness.
These birds that stay, are a proven source of mess and annoyance and if weren't tame would probably "go south" for the winter.
We tried to camp in a park last year on the St.Lawrence Sea Way, that was totally taken over by tame geese, but due to their messy nature, camping was impossible.

There has been much talk about some sort of "cull" on these way too numerous birds... thoughts?

[bstark]

The Geese changing their migratory patterns is directly the responsibility of stupid humans who can't leave mother nature alone. It should be a requirement that if you feed a Goose, bear, beaver, raccoon, etc., etc., you have to adopt that particular specie and sign papers guaranteeing responsibility until University Graduation. Having the animal living indoors with you may change your idea about feeding the thing in the first place. We would not tolerate a so-called domestic pet pooping on our site/lawn/property so why is the terribly greasier "goose poop" tolerated? A cull would not have been necessary if people had simply left them alone.

[brad03ca]

I gotta agree with you on this. Un-fortunatly, too many "do-gooders" try to help Mother Nature, and only mess things up.
A few years back on the beach in Tampa, my father took a bag of bread for the gulls, terns, etc. Well... Gulls came from as far away as Panama Beach, and Key West. We almost didn't get of the beach with our own skin. Sun bathers were ready to stuff us into the bread bags and feed us to the birds... never fed the birds sense.....