Hype is a funny thing. Sometimes, it feels like social media is just one big breeding ground of endless hype that becomes so all-consuming that it ultimately just transforms itself into a barrage of incessant white noise. With Geese, itβs been impossible to tune out the outside noise.
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.
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.
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.
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
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. )
#Storytime #Thread #Birds
Beginning in 2008, I began to recognize a returning pair of Canada #Geese on my backyard marsh.
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.
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