[Dan from Michigan]

Who isn't moved, they ask, by the graceful flight of the gaggle as it glides through the sky in a V-formation?

I'm not.

And is not their honk-a-lonk a siren song from the deepest heart of nature?

No. It's annoying, probably the most annoying noise of all the birds, give or take the crow or red winged blackbird's noises. I prefer a loon.

Elaine Chamberlain of Royal Oak likes to take her two children to Oakland County parks to see the geese.

Better be careful, Elaine. Geese are known to bite. They call the term 'goosed', goosed for a reason.

I hope these loud noisy mean honkers get wiped out. Unfortunatly, most areas that need them offed are also 450 ft from buildings. :(

[cavtrooper21]

Airborne Carp alert..
May try for two this year, should be no great trick.

[brianl703]

When these annoying pests cross the road, they expect traffic to stop for them.

I really doubt they're quick enough to get out of the way if someone were to punch the gas instead of stopping.

[presidio9]

One thing needs to be made clear about Canada geese:

The non-migratory birds are not natural inhabitants. They are the descendents of escaped "live decoys" and they need to be controlled the same way stray cats are contolled. They outcompete and crowd out natural species such as ducks.

[presidio9]

[The_Victor]

In the 1920s, some naturalists got to tinkering with nature and brought several geese into the state from Minnesota.

Can you say "unintended consequences". Gooood!

Environmentalist wacko'ism comes full circle.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Rats with wings.

[hoosierskypilot]

some naturalists got to tinkering with nature

And there you have it. Some new-age-existential-connect-with-the-planet freaks salaried by the govt to make life hard for real people.

[jpl]

Who isn't moved, they ask, by the graceful flight of the gaggle as it glides through the sky in a V-formation?

Good article, but the author made a common mistake. A flying group of geese is correctly identified as a "skein". A "gaggle" is a group of geese on the ground.

[July 4th]

Same problem here in Wisconsin. There's really nothing as disgusting as trying to play soccer on a field that was previously inhabited by geese.

[dead]

"Drop the bomb. Exterminate them all."
"PBR Street Gang this is Almighty, over.."
"The horror. The horror..."

[D Rider]

I hope these loud noisy mean honkers get wiped out. Unfortunatly, most areas that need them offed are also 450 ft from buildings. :(

Geese are just plain yummy. They need to change the hunting reg.s, forget the 12 guage, and allow netting. If netted, there is much less of a change of cracking a tooth on steel shot. You could also go out on your back lawn with a buddy and fill your daily limit in about 10 minutes.

[Porterville]

Well if their "Canadian" geese why not just shoot them and eat them for dinner??? Who really cares???

[Richard-SIA]

Most "Park Geese" are totally unafraid of people, they are addicted to the treats humans continue to give them.
This makes them easy to "hunt" near homes.
They can usually be driven into a net and dispatched away from sight of the local bunny huggers.
A machete works great if being observed is not a problem.
A bow equipped for bow-fishing (arrow is tied to a reel of 40 lb. test fishing line) ensures that no bunny hugger finds a wounded goose wandering around.

They are pretty big, I usually only get one or two a year.

With a limit of five a day, ten in posession, a generouse person could supply the local homeless shelters and old folks homes with a lot of good preservative free meat. ;-)

[IM4TRUTH]

I have a pond at home and began the season with a pair of Candian Geese, the female of which was sitting on her eggs. This is my first season with them, and I began to feed them corn. I thought it was kinda neat.

Well, about a month after those two guys arrived, they were joined by three more. Now I had five. I continued to feed them, but was quickly becoming annoyed with the goose crap all over my lawn.

Then, about two months ago, these five geese were joined by another group of six, making it 11 in total. But the two groups did NOT get along. When they came too close to each other, a fight would break out and geese would go honking and flying everywhere. I now had a turf war going on on my front lawn. And the invading geese were winning over my original geese.

But the last straw was when a couple weeks ago, the group of five geese came flying in, and that group was quickly followed by another group of 13 geese, for a total of 18 geese. I had had it. I grabbed my shotgun and stormed outside, blasting a couple shells off over their heads. That scattered them.

I don't have the heart to go around killing them, but when I see a goose on my land, it's gonna hear my shotgun.

[vin-one]

Here in Northern VA. they are a pain
We can't even swim in our lake anymore
(what we here call a lake you would probably call a small pond)
they have tried to tamper with the eggs, to limit the growth,
but that hasn't worked to well.
I say open season on these fowl POS's.
I hate Canadian Geese.......

I also heard they are not very good eating,, to much fat.

[b-cubed]

Here in Bellevue Washington they've become more than just a bother. Sometimes they get downright dangerous. About 2 years ago an elderly lady was walking down the sidewalk when she came across 2 big old goofy geese. They wouldn't get out of her way and when she tried to walk through them they beat the heck out of her. Broke her leg (probably from falling down) and gave her some bruises. Mean poopers.

[katnip]

Like it or not, the birds are going to be here a long time they say. So people need to learn to tolerate them better.

But WHY must we learn to tolerate dirty "rats with wings" that are making our lives miserable?

Since when does "tolerance" extend to vermin?

Puleeeeze!

[Dan from Michigan]

Ping

[Aracelis]

"Take a gander"...lol!

[Question_Assumptions]

Who isn't moved, they ask, by the graceful flight of the gaggle as it glides through the sky in a V-formation?

They fly? Here in New Jersey, they seem to walk everywhere. Slowly. Even down the middle of the road. I'm willing to drive my car right up to them. That usually encourages them to speed up a little. But they never fly.