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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.
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. )
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
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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.
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.
Rasta
Alison Meeks