Tag: Canada geese

Spring babies!

Just too lovely not to share with you all now.

For the last few weeks we have had a pair of Canada geese on our tiny island in the centre of our lake in the large paddock where our horses graze most days. More accurately, we have had the mother sitting on her clutch of eggs for the last few weeks.

We knew it was getting close to the eggs hatching and several times a day we look out to see if the youngsters have made it out of their nest.

A little over two hours ago, Oregon time, I took the following photographs!

Mum and Dad and what looks like 5 goslings.

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Going round the back of the little island. The nest can be seen on the far right-hand side of the photo.

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Spring is most definitely Sprung!

Now life-giving geese.

After welcoming Pedy last Saturday, now we welcome five young goslings.

First thing this morning it was another quick check on Mother Goose, as Jean and I tend to do each day these last couple of weeks. She was still sitting on her nest, as she had been since March 17th.

Jean and I then had to go out this morning for a couple of hours. So imagine our sheer delight upon our return to see an empty nest.

But this pair first started egg-sitting far too long ago for what we believed was the normal incubation period for Canada Geese; 24 to 28 days. Plus, neighbours Larry and Janell, had seen broken gosling eggs just inside their fence line. We held our breath as we looked around the pond.

Then a few moments later, we saw this:

That zoomed in showed the new family.

And an even better image ….

Couldn’t stop taking pictures!

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So a very happy ending. Apparently young Canada Geese return to their place of birth when they are adults so we look forward to seeing some of them again in 2016.