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Anyone know anything about Canadian geese? I have a lone Canadian goose that has decided to camp out in my yard. I have seen him/her every day for the past few days. I live across from a small lake (it is about 100 yards through the woods) and we get flocks of them stopping for the night and we have a few that stay all summer, but I have never had one come to my yard, and I have never seen one all by themselves like this. Is it possible that they were injured or sick and couldn't make the trip with the rest of their flock? Will it find a new flock? Will it stay in my yard? Will it bring friends (I don't want a flock of Canadians in my yard)? Could it be that this winter has just been so bad and it is desperate for food and my yard has finally got some greenery showing? It is odd that we have been here for decades and we never had one on the property before. We also had a few pair of mallards move into the small pond (puddle) just across the street (it has duckweed and watercress growing in it year round, I think it is spring fed and so it never really freezes over). We have never had them there either. It has to be related to this year's weather, don't you think?
 
I put 18 eggs in my incubator! This will be my second attempt on hatching eggs. Tried duck eggs this past fall and somebody hit the Temperature gage just as they were piping and fried them! Made my husband bury them. This time they are chicken eggs, Rhode Island Reds. Then I order duckling for next month.
 
JerseyHen said:
Anyone know anything about Canadian geese? I have a lone Canadian goose that has decided to camp out in my yard. I have seen him/her every day for the past few days. I live across from a small lake (it is about 100 yards through the woods) and we get flocks of them stopping for the night and we have a few that stay all summer, but I have never had one come to my yard, and I have never seen one all by themselves like this. Is it possible that they were injured or sick and couldn't make the trip with the rest of their flock? Will it find a new flock? Will it stay in my yard? Will it bring friends (I don't want a flock of Canadians in my yard)? Could it be that this winter has just been so bad and it is desperate for food and my yard has finally got some greenery showing? It is odd that we have been here for decades and we never had one on the property before. We also had a few pair of mallards move into the small pond (puddle) just across the street (it has duckweed and watercress growing in it year round, I think it is spring fed and so it never really freezes over). We have never had them there either. It has to be related to this year's weather, don't you think?  
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Does the goose seem healthy? Can you get close to it?
Last year we had a goose just show up in our yard...but he was badly injured (wing was torn off)..there are quarries and large ponds behind my house (not very close but walking distance)..the poor little guy had to have walked through the woods like that after he got attacked.
Just make sure the goose dosnt seem sick and is coherent. It could just be lost and or lost its flock, and relized your property is a "safe" area to hang out
 
carousel86 said:
I put 18 eggs in my incubator! This will be my second attempt on hatching eggs. Tried duck eggs this past fall and somebody hit the Temperature gage just as they were piping and fried them! Made my husband bury them. This time they are chicken eggs, Rhode Island Reds. Then I order duckling for next month.
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Sorry about your duck eggs! Do you use a little giant type incubator?
 
It seems healthy. I tried to get near it yesterday, but it flew off, so at least I know it can fly. It looked pretty healthy, feathers in good shape, nothing obvious going on. Maybe it was injured or ill and is just now recovered enough, but its flock moved on? It is welcome to stay as long as it doesn't bring another 100 with him... lol. I wonder if it is a male or female. I am going to have to look that up, I am not sure if they look different or not. How can I have been around them all of my life and know so little about them?

Maybe we have a nesting female somewhere nearby and this is the male protecting his area?

edited with things I now know:
Feb - April, they will pair off for laying and hatching of eggs and are often seen in pairs rather than in a group.
The males and females are feathered the same, so unless the male and female are side by side they are very hard to tell apart.
The female will make the nest within sight of water and the male will guard from some distance away to prevent attracting predators near the nesting female.

I am going to have to get the sighting scope out and see if I can find a nesting female in the wooded area across from my house. It makes the most sense to me, since this seems to be a pretty healthy bird.
 
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