{"id":7629,"date":"2019-06-23T18:32:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T18:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siteandinsight.com\/?p=7629"},"modified":"2019-06-23T18:32:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T18:32:46","slug":"canada-geese-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/canada-geese-go-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Geese Go Home!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada geese are gorgeous birds to look at. But why, oh why, do I have to see them here at Glen Villa?<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of May I saw two adults swimming with their little ones. How many babies were there?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7636\" style=\"width: 1800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7636\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7636\" src=\"http:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/May-30-1-of-1.jpg\" alt=\"Talk about getting all your ducks in a row....\" width=\"1790\" height=\"1170\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Talk about getting all your ducks in a row&#8230;.or your geese in this case.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The goslings\u00a0swam in and out of sight, and each time I counted I got a different number. But I could see there were a lot of them.<\/p>\n<p>The next day I saw them again. And again I couldn&rsquo;t get a firm count. But there were\u00a0twelve or thirteen, for sure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7637\" style=\"width: 2365px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7637\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7637\" src=\"http:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/May-31-1-of-1.jpg\" alt=\"I took this photo on May 31.\" width=\"2355\" height=\"1514\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The babies are very cute, and the parent quite handsome. But boy, are they messy!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I first\u00a0photographed the goslings on May 30 but I&rsquo;d seen them several days earlier. They were tiny then. But by June 6, when I took the photo below, they were beginning to grow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7633\" style=\"width: 1788px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7633\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7633\" src=\"http:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/June-6-3-of-4.jpg\" alt=\"The gosling in the rear must have hatched earlier than the one in front... there is a marked difference in their size. \" width=\"1778\" height=\"1215\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The gosling in the rear must have hatched earlier than the one in front&#8230; there is a marked difference in size.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The goslings and their parents revelled in the fresh grass beside the pond, nibbling happily in the morning\u00a0sun or the afternoon shade. Whenever a car\u00a0turned onto the driveway, they rushed into the\u00a0water where they were safe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7631\" style=\"width: 5194px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7631\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7631\" src=\"http:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/June-6-1-of-4.jpg\" alt=\"I often saw the parents standing like this, on either side of the gaggle of goslings, looking out for danger.\" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I often saw the parents standing like this, on either side of the gaggle of goslings,\u00a0alert for danger.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One day I got a clear count. There were 13. And since Canada geese return to their birthplace when they are ready to have babies, I slumped at the thought of how many geese we could anticipate\u00a0seeing\u00a0next year.<\/p>\n<p>But the worst was yet to come. One day last week I saw\u00a0a second family. There were only four babies but even so, my heart sank. Soon the parents would be\u00a0leading the babies down the driveway to the Big Meadow. In 2016 we stopped cutting the grass there, in part to deter the geese, and the experiment had been working reasonably well. But with four adults and 17 babies?<\/p>\n<p>The next day\u00a0I saw them strolling confidently down the driveway, on their way to the lake. You&rsquo;d think they owned the place.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7635\" style=\"width: 4297px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7635\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7635\" src=\"http:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/June-14-1-of-1.jpg\" alt=\"You can see the four adults. Can you count 17 goslings?\" width=\"4287\" height=\"2742\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You can see the four adults. Can you count 17 goslings?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The next day I saw six adults. They had no babies I could see. So were they grandparents or a pair whose eggs didn&rsquo;t hatch?<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could tell these geese to go home. But it looks like they are at home, and here to stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada geese are gorgeous birds to look at. But why, oh why, do I have to see them here at Glen Villa? Towards the end of May I saw two adults swimming with their little ones. How many babies were there? &nbsp; &nbsp; The goslings\u00a0swam in and out of sight, and each time I counted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,82],"tags":[229,37,852],"class_list":["post-7629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glen-villa","category-miscellaneous-2","tag-canada-geese","tag-glen-villa","tag-goslings","category-38","category-82","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}