Thursday, March 26, 2009

Maternity Island




The geese at North Terrace Lake along Cliff Drive settled on a nest spot this week. Roughly 30 days from now we should see fuzzy little goslings.

6 comments:

  1. Survivor - Cliff Drive.
    Who gets voted off the island this week!
    Lets name her Hissy - in honor of WHizzo the Clown!

    Sportster
    ...who's always happy never sad...

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  2. It isn't likely but still remotely possible that we can name her
    Octo-Gander.....

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  3. Isn't gander the male? Take a gander at the dictionary and teach me why that verb has anything to do with a yummy-looking bird. How does that taste, by the way? I don't like duck, so …

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  4. Thanks to Applecart who corrected my gender... that should be "Octo-Goose".... and the Dad would be "Octo-Gander." All of this probably moot since they rarely have more than 7.

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  5. David - I never saw a goose on a next in all the years I rambled around Clif Drive or Northeast. Good pictures and I'd swear the "gander" was acting quite proprietary!....
    Jack Price from Casper, Wyoming

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  6. Correction - that's "nest", not next". Sorry. -- JJ, Casper

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