DawgTalkers.net Forums Thread Like Summary - The Geese are Back!...Spring is here..!

For the last 10 yrs or so, we have had a pair of geese fly into our 1.5 acre pond, where they build a nest, lay their eggs, hatching those eggs with approx. 6 to 10 goslings. Sometimes they hang around and raise their offspring here until they fledge and move on, to a larger body of water.

Sometimes they hang around our 1.5 acre pond for only a few days and then simply vanish...gone. Then like this year, the parents show up when we have a south wind and begin the process all over again.

WELL, the wife and I were talking Saturday morning, noting our  'strong, warm, southerly wind'...wondering if 'mother nature' was once again giving us a sign that the beginning of spring and the beginning of the nesting cycle for our Geese had begun.

Warm weather on Saturday and Sunday, along with a strong southerly wind...and this morning, an hour or so ago...we look out at one of our bird feeders and there is a single Canadian goose picking up the birdseed that is being tossed onto the ground by our regulars. Only those Geese familiar with our property would know about our feeders.

Spring is just about here according to the calendar date... but 'our Geese' are telling us that SPRING IS HERE..!

clem...definitely cool, looking at that fuzzy baby exhibiting that 'dead serious Eagle scowl' that seems to say, don't mess with me...

Egg #2 of the Decorah North 'Eagles' nest is reported to be closer to hatching with some viewers seeing a hole in the shell and hearing peeping noises coming from inside the egg. A good chance that the second baby eagle hatches today.

That said...at the abandoned Eagle nest that looked to be taken over by a pair of Geese...they now have EGGS..! Strange, but not unheard of...

Here's an incredible pic someone sent me. Eagles mate for life, and take turns on the nest incubating the eggs. Looks like a ticked off wife waiting for hubby to come home from the bar. This was an awesome capture.

Yesterday, the Geese that laid their eggs in an abandoned Eagles nest in Decorah, Iowa...the eggs began to hatch. It is customary for an adult to stay with the baby geese (aka: Goslings) until all hatch then one of the adults remains on the ground and calls the Goslings, encouraging them to jump out of the nest.

The video will switch back and forth showing images of the Geese and Goslings and also showing a pair of Eagles that have been in the area, but are not nesting.

Peen...here is another video of baby geese jumping out of a nest and YES..THEY SURVIVED.





From the comments under the video..seems this is a regular occurrence at Sandpoint, Idaho. Click their facebook link below for pictures and more info.


SandpointOnline
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Video of goslings jumping from the Memorial Field webcam nest in Sandpoint, Idaho. The six goslings are jumping 100 feet down to the field following their parents.
Update: They made it to the lake safely, see a photo of the family here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...