Any birdwatchers?

[old_prof]

Does no one else find the irony in the Canadian Geese being particularly assholes? Candian humans are notoriously polite (yes I know enough Canadians to know this is not 100% true). Did they just turn all the asshole people at some point into birds?

 

[SimonDoom]

Not to derail these important concerns about a particular species of fowl, but the correct term is "Canada Geese," not "Canadian Geese."

I've never had an unpleasant experience with Canada Geese, even when I was practically wading through them walking up a fairway on a golf course. It's the domesticated types that have wanted to kill me.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

If you were dodging hockey pucks all day wouldn't you be, eh?

 

[liqueur]

Does no one else find the irony in the Canadian Geese being particularly assholes? Candian humans are notoriously polite...

Maybe it's the Americans who are the problem...

 

[MelissaBaby]

Seems odd that you would see them in winter but that where you are is the northernmost edge of their range. Birds are usually south in winter. Must be some drunk waxwings!

They go south because of the availability of food. With so many people putting out feeders, lots of species have expanded their winter range.

My mom has several crabapples trees in her yard in Maine. She has had waxwings in the winter on occasion and usually has robins who stay year round.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I got a batch of baby birdies already. Too soon in the season?

Noticed some activity around an old rotted fencepost, took a peek and sure enough. Already feathered out too, may be flying soon.

It was in the teens last week overnight. How did Mom keep them warm? Rotted wood may have helped I guess.

Don't ask me what kind. Don't know, Mom is mostly black with some blue highlights.

 

[SimonDoom]

I saw another Cooper's Hawk (could be the same one) eating a small bird in the same tree yesterday. Feathers were raining down on the ground. A bird feeder hangs under the tree, so little birds flit around that tree all the time. It might also have attacked a nest, however. It was too high for me to see.

 

[ishtat]

Went up the Hawksbury (60 Km north of Sydney) river today and saw a pair of White bellied Sea eagles and a singleton.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Not to derail these important concerns about a particular species of fowl, but the correct term is "Canada Geese," not "Canadian Geese."

How about this: all Canadian geese including Canada geese are assholes.

That said, all geese are assholes, so the statement above, though true, is rather moot.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

whenever I get hissed at by a goose, I take that shit personally.

 

[SimonDoom]

How about this: all Canadian geese including Canada geese are assholes.

That said, all geese are assholes, so the statement above, though true, is rather moot.

A goose by any other name is still a goose.

They're also full of shit. Literally. I know of no bird that shits more prolifically than geese, and they like to shit in places where you notice, like schoolyards and golf courses.