Keeping the Family Going

I think Greylag Goose parents definitely keep their broods moving forward, renewing the blood line. These geese only moved onto our village ponds last year, but already they have had the effect of making ducks and moorhens move away, and ensuring that those few that remain aren’t able to raise their own babies to maturity. When it comes to protecting local wildlife, many of us here aren’t so keen on offering these geese much of a helping hand.

For Becky’s #Squares Renew

IJ Khanewala’s Bird of the Week

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Author: margaret21

I'm retired and live in North Yorkshire, where I walk , write, volunteer and travel as often as I can.

42 thoughts on “Keeping the Family Going”

  3. They’re fierce, then. I came across quite a few Canada Geese on Manchester’s canal towpaths recently and expected to turn back but they just quietly hissed at us and let us pass. Glad they weren’t Greylags.

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  15. Great images Margaret. We have Canada Geese here around our pond. The dads are mean when they have goslings to protect. I hiss back at them. They don’t bother the ducks though.

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    1. They certainly bother our ducks, who scarper. And the few that remain don’t seem able to rear their brods to maturity. They always have high casualties (the road, foxes etc) but last year, the first that large numbers of geese were present not a single duckling made adulthood.

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      1. We did have your type of geese visit (3 of them). They attacked the people walking around the pond. I’m in a senior community and one of our residents fell because of the geese. Fortunately, she didn’t break anything. Fish and game came and rehomed the three geese.

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