Canada geese gang brood missing

[Canadageeselover88]

I been going to this lake for about 3 months now and been going everyday.. there was a bunch of pairs with goslings and they all even got used to me coming there everyday.. now all of a sudden it's been 3 or 4 days and that they haven't been there, they basically just vanished. 5 groups of goslings and their parents. Now there's just the geese without goslings there.. we can not find out where our favorite group of geese/goslings went to!

 

[Miss Lydia]

When the pair of Canada geese nest in our mt river on a small island and actually hatch goslings [sometimes flooding happens] any way once the goslings hatch they stick around about a week maybe to give the gosling time to get strong but then all of a sudden they are gone. We figure they take those kids of theirs an go meet up with other geese families they is safety in numbers.

 

[Canadageeselover88]

When the pair of Canada geese nest in our mt river on a small island and actually hatch goslings [sometimes flooding happens] any way once the goslings hatch they stick around about a week maybe to give the gosling time to get strong but then all of a sudden they are gone. We figure they take those kids of theirs an go meet up with other geese families they is safety in numbers.

Well these groups had older goslings. And the one pair has goslings that are about a month or so old. They been at this lake everyday for months now and all of a sudden they're gone.

 

[Miss Lydia]

How large is the lake maybe they are just on part of it that you can't see them.

 

[Canadageeselover88]

It's about medium size. Not that big. I check the whole part of the lake too

 

[bobbi-j]

As the goslings get older, the parents will take them farther and farther away. We have wild geese that nest around here every year. Many of them. For the first month or so, you will see them in the lakes and sloughs, and as the goslings age, they take them out into the fields to forage on fresh crops that are coming up (and damaging hundreds of acres of cropland in the process). They're hardly in the water anymore.

Miss Lydia is correct that they move them. The geese were there the first months scouting out nesting places, then they incubated and hatched. The next stage was to let them grow and get stronger before moving on. They have now reached the moving on stage.

 

[Canadageeselover88]

As the goslings get older, the parents will take them farther and farther away. We have wild geese that nest around here every year. Many of them. For the first month or so, you will see them in the lakes and sloughs, and as the goslings age, they take them out into the fields to forage on fresh crops that are coming up (and damaging hundreds of acres of cropland in the process). They're hardly in the water anymore.

Miss Lydia is correct that they move them. The geese were there the first months scouting out nesting places, then they incubated and hatched. The next stage was to let them grow and get stronger before moving on. They have now reached the moving on stage.

I thought they have to stay by water especially if they're molting.. and all the other lakes I go to they're all still there.

 

[Stepnout]

Ah there you just said the magic word Molting. If they are molting the adults take the young to a safe haven so the ADULTS can molt. I thought that was in August but maybe I.m wrong.

 

[Canadageeselover88]

Ah there you just said the magic word Molting. If they are molting the adults take the young to a safe haven so the ADULTS can molt. I thought that was in August but maybe I.m wrong.

Well I think molting started early this year.. I seen them start losing there feathers late June and still are molting.. most of them seem to sleep in the water at night and stay by it during the day

 

[Canadageeselover88]

Well I think molting started early this year.. I seen them start losing there feathers late June and still are molting.. most of them seem to sleep in the water at night and stay by it during the day

I just don't know where this whole group has gone to.. and I know nothing could of happened to all of them cause that a a lot of geese.