Saw/heard many flocks yesterday. Got home today and there was a huge flock way up there! I think I live under a geese highway
Southbound geese over Texas!
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My sympathies on their presence, it is a great celebration when they leave Ohio.
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I used to work with a place just east of Cleveland where the geese nested. Nasty critters! One pair made a nest in the middle of the main drive shutting it down.
They eventually found a solution. They paid a woman to walk her dog on the grounds.
Ben
They often spend the night at a very large stock tank across the road from us. VERY loud coming and going. I do like to watch them leaving of a morning and circling to get in formation!
I saw the first big flight of geese yesterday. It's time for them to be moving south. I actually enjoy watching them When they set their wings and land I always stop to watch.
I saw a bunch on the lake couple weeks ago. We have some thatcstay year round, but also get flocks flying thru heading south.
Not quite daylight and it's LOUD in the cow pasture across the road!! Sounds like a big flock, were a lot over there all day in the stupid wind. Guess they had a ground stop!
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I saw a hawk migration here. Never saw anything like it. Went on for minutes and minutes. Pretty cool to live in an area where you get to see so much of that.
MANY geese going over today!! Was on the pool float
watching flock after flock go over!! May need to go with them!
watching flock after flock go over!! May need to go with them!
Might need an umbrella if they take a group dump.MANY geese going over today!! Was on the pool float
As long as you know which way the wind is blowing you know when you can look up!!!
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I saw a huge flock of Buzzards flying south today. Never noticed them doing that before. There must have been 75 of them
Must have been something really big dead to your south!
I had saw 2 circling earlier in the day, like normal. But there were lined up like geese and headed directly south. Never noticed them do that before
There are a lot of buzzards in my area and I've never noticed that either. I'll Google it and see if that's normal!
Ok, googled it!! Buzzards, (turkey vultures) do migrate south. Usually to our southern states and Mexico. I guess that's why I've never seen it, your buzzards are coming here!! I'll be sure to take good care of them Bacpacker, may have to run over small woodland animals to make roadkill!
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Pretty sure they migrate away from here too. Some stragglers but I don’t usually see them in the cooler months. There’s a useful bird app you can use from Cornell University. I had it on my other phone.
Thanks, I'm going to see if I can find it!
Strange I have never noticed it before. Thanks for the info
Just had a flock of geese headed south through here. It's kind of late.
In the V formation the leader does most of the work. The ones behind get lift from its disturbed air. As the leader tires one from the back comes forward and takes the lead. The once leader drops back one space and uses the lift from the new leader. The next time that bird is leader it drops back on the other side to give the other wing a rest.
In the V formation the leader does most of the work. The ones behind get lift from its disturbed air. As the leader tires one from the back comes forward and takes the lead. The once leader drops back one space and uses the lift from the new leader. The next time that bird is leader it drops back on the other side to give the other wing a rest.
Great info!! A lot of late geese still coming over here lately!!
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This story has outraged some people. I am quite sure that there are few needy families that would have no clue about how to cook a goose and would probably not eat any if someone else cooked it for them. My family had them for holiday meals.
There are geese in Denver who never leave and make messes. I think there are many less geese in the area now that they keep culling them.
Chef Eric Skokan Thinks Denver Geese Plan Could Take Off
Denver culls Canada geese to feed 'needy families' - BBC News
"The US city of Denver is culling Canada geese and donating their meat to "needy families" in an effort to tackle a rising population of the birds. Officials say the birds have destroyed vegetation, created sanitation issues and caused increasing "human-wildlife conflicts" in the Colorado city. Jul 3, 2019"
There are geese in Denver who never leave and make messes. I think there are many less geese in the area now that they keep culling them.
Chef Eric Skokan Thinks Denver Geese Plan Could Take Off
Denver culls Canada geese to feed 'needy families' - BBC News
"The US city of Denver is culling Canada geese and donating their meat to "needy families" in an effort to tackle a rising population of the birds. Officials say the birds have destroyed vegetation, created sanitation issues and caused increasing "human-wildlife conflicts" in the Colorado city. Jul 3, 2019"
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They are overpopulated, they need to be eaten!!
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As of one time maybe 20 years ago they were protected on their nesting grounds.
Nasty critters.
Ben
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I don't know about this area. It is possible that these nesting grounds were protected, but man, it had gotten ridiculous. Some dogs want to lick up all of the droppings those birds leave. It made walking dogs in some parks very difficult.
My g grandparents lived by a lake. Since they regularly had 30 people for Sunday dinner (their own 13 children, some in laws, and others), one of the sons would go to the lake and get geese, ducks or whatever he could to add to the menu.
That's cool that he was able to put some wild game on the menu. Goose is kind of nasty though. Like greasy liver meat, but from a critter that's been eating out of the mud its whole life...
Saw some crossing the Mason-Dixon Line (Ohio River) today.
Pretty sure I heard geese yesterday. It's warm out west and northwest I would think they wouldn't be migrating yet!!
So they are on the move from up north to down here! Some leave earlier than others
Probably because everyone is shooting at them up here. lol.
