#Storytime #Thread #Birds Beginning in 2008, I began to recognize a returning pair of Canada #Geese on my backyard marsh.

[rasta@zeroes.ca]

#Storytime #Thread #Birds
Beginning in 2008, I began to recognize a returning pair of Canada #Geese on my backyard marsh. @Lstn2urmama

They mate for life, live 10 to 25 years, & return to nesting areas. It's possible that it's the same pair?
I named them Gail and Gordon.

[rasta@zeroes.ca]

If you see them every day, like I do, you get familiar with their habits, hangouts, hiding places, and they get familiar with you. Can you see the newly born Goslings?

(Not to be confused with https://goslings.com which is a fine Bermuda Rum. )

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[rasta@zeroes.ca]

Goslings grow really fast. At first, it's difficult to find them with your camera. The bright sunlight on my view screen, and their neutral blending color makes them invisible. In a week, they start getting yellow.

Mom brings them closer to me every day
#Thread #Birds #Goslings #Geese

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[elliek@zeroes.ca]

@Rasta
Did you mean to write @Lstn2urmama ? It wasn't a live link.

[rasta@zeroes.ca]

So, since I've been tracking *Gail & Gordon*, they've returned to my backyard every spring. While watching, they stay within running distance to the ocean. Another week, & there will be goose-poop on my patio. Sometimes a gosling wanders on when I'm shooting photos.

#Thread #Birds #Goslings #Geese #Storytime

[rasta@zeroes.ca]

Going back a week, here's how they know I'm no threat?
As she brings her tiny venerable Goslings up into my yard from the ocean, my music can be heard. There's a lot of noise in the yard, yet she brings them into my backyard anyway #Video

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[carrottop1023@mastodon.stickbear.me]

@elliek Hi there my friend. How are you doing today?

[rasta@zeroes.ca]

One year, something disturbed an egg, it rolled out of the nest & she hatched an odd number that year.
Her goslings have had their own nests; last count, a few years back, there were 52 in one flock and 35 in another.

They go elsewhere when grown. Thankfully.

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[elliek@zeroes.ca]

@carrottop1023
Doing okay, thanks, Tim. Despite the weather. You?

[carrottop1023@mastodon.stickbear.me]

@elliek Not too bad, just glad I wasn't outside today.

[alison@beige.party]

@Rasta Your own private militia!

[rasta@zeroes.ca]

Which brings me back to this year's #nesting.
Eggs always hatch by mid-late May.
I watch daily, walk slowly to Mother Goose on #nest. I believe it's still Gail, but last year bird flu affected Gordon and she may have a new mate.

STRIKE A POSE! #VOGUE
Updates soon
#TheEnd

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[rasta@zeroes.ca]

@Alison They are already on my shores, as soon as the harbour ice broke, they were mating and hanging out

[alison@beige.party]

@Rasta Nobody messing about there.

[rasta@zeroes.ca]

@elliek No, live link from the *other* place. Thanks

[rasta@zeroes.ca]

@Alison Late at night, when no one is looking, deer are doing dirty deeds on your lawn.
SHOOT THEM! LOL

[alison@beige.party]

@Rasta Ahhh while I grew up on venison roast etc and enjoyed it, I couldn't do it and even later in life Dad couldn't either.

[cowman@thecanadian.social]

@Rasta aww so cool.
Also, ya Goslings is a fine rum indeed.

[rasta@zeroes.ca]

@Alison When I hunted, I'd barely have my deer hung and folks were looking for a steak. When I stopped hunting, I had my last one too. funny about that. I like it. I'd hunt again if I was a younger man. These days, just filling the freezer with meat is a good reason

[rasta@zeroes.ca]

@CowMan
<sign> I had a tour of *the plant* and they gave us cases of their 151 Goslings.