This is an interesting time of year for Canadian Geese. There are always anywhere from 20 to several hundreds on the pond or fields at all times. Since we have lived here every single year, beginning in spring 1988 we have had an average of 3-11 goslings born. The average number is probably six. I have seen only one baby that didn't make it in all these years. Geese mate for life.
Thet are wonderful parents. If you figure each one of those goslings eventually got married and had babies and came back to visit it is easy to know why all through the winter we regularly are home to 100's and sometimes 1000's of geese. I kind of think most of them are related somehow. Certainly flocks of geese are families and extended family groups.
Anyway getting back to my desperate housegeese. Each spring at least one set of parents will hatch out its little family. They fly off together by July 4 and come back together before Thanksgiving. However around this time of year the parents will kick out the kids as they prepare to have another family. Up to a few weeks ago there was a flock of seven which was the five kids from last year and the parents. They have been very friendly towards me all year and not scared at all. Well now when I walk around there are pairs of geese everywhere. Last week I counted 7 pair on various parts of the property. Each pair had its romantic corner of the property. Then there are my 5 desperate housegeese. These are the siblings that have been "kicked out" by the parents. They wander around the yard kind of lost honking. I see what I think are their parents a little ways away. The kids are kind of lost- desperate like. Honestly this happens every single year. They haven't found love. They honk a lot more than normal. Anyway I am hoping they will find love this summer. I am sure they will. There are plenty of second and third cousins that come to visit and probably a new goose from up north. And romance among the geese is in the air- there is lots of honking going on down at the pond. I am hoping things go well so there isn't so much desperate honking in the air.
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I think one of those desperate housegeese is named Teri Hatcher.
THIS IS ROSS:
It seems like there is love in the air at the Olsen pond... I hope Teri Hatcher finds her true love... If she cant find love by the end of the summer i'm sure Finn (Derek's Dog) will Love and support Teri during the long cold winters.
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