Territorial geese question

[Canadageeselover88]

This gander and his mate act like they own this lake. Every time I throw food down to them the gander starts chasing the other geese non stop and then running back to his mate honking and bragging up a storm while it sounds like she’s laughing. It’s basically like he’s bullying the other geese. He just goes back and forth the whole entire time chasing each and every one. They don’t even have a nest yet and they’re already acting like they have one. I never seen a pair of geese act this way with other geese.. what could it mean?

 

[Kessel23]

That is normal behavior for the geese by me. A good bit of our property is marshlands. I always see the geese pairs fighting over territory once they come back. They do not migrate for the winter where I am but they stay in large flocks out on the rivers. They usually come back onto the breeding grounds around mid-late March and then they start to fight over the best nesting areas. I found a few nests last year, they like muskrat huts a lot and some of the nests were only a few hundred feet away from each other so they are not extremely territorial.

 

[mominoz]

This gander and his mate act like they own this lake. Every time I throw food down to them the gander starts chasing the other geese non stop and then running back to his mate honking and bragging up a storm while it sounds like she’s laughing. It’s basically like he’s bullying the other geese. He just goes back and forth the whole entire time chasing each and every one. They don’t even have a nest yet and they’re already acting like they have one. I never seen a pair of geese act this way with other geese.. what could it mean?

He is staking a claim and he just wants lots of land or is VERY paranoid...LOL