In an upside-down world where an increasing number of world leaders are selling their populations out, the geese serve as one of nature’s best reminders that some things other than man-made were Creator-made to endure.
CanadaFreePress: Many times throughout the day, the geese are honking their way across the skies outside our windows. It’s as if they want all humans to know that they are on their way south. Their distinctive honking is pure enthusiasm. It takes only a little imagination to think their honking is like calling out to other geese in their signature V-formations, “Only 100 miles to go!” or “Look up at the skies, folks, we’re heading for the sunny south again!”
It was coming upon their characteristics in an Internet write-up that made me an unabiding fan of God’s geese. Their loyalty to each other is truly remarkable. MORE
Ya know what that is? A good dinner.
Thats several good dinners.
Ya, no kidding!
My Hungarian grandmother used to cook roast goose. The homemade gravy was so good I remember sitting at her kitchen table and drinking it out of a teacup.
Of course, that was before they discovered cholesterol.
Best goose meat by far are Specs. Snows and Cans are like eating jerky.
There are still things of beauty to see if you just stop looking at the shinny sliver of glass in your hand.
I don’t wanna eat geese. They’re dark meat and greasy like duck, etc. I’d rather visit them on ground and let them be curious with me, especially if they have bebes with them. If they hiss I tell them to shut up and they obey. They know I mean them no harm. I absolutely love their honking. It’s a staple for me.
Corona, wrap a duck breast around a water chestnut, wrap a slice of bacon around that. Shove a tooth pick thru the entire thing. Throw it on your barbeque with sand smear your favorite sauce over it. You can replace the water Chesnut with a Jalopeno pepper. Taste stuff bro.
I’d rather have a Whopper w/ cheese. I’m like John Kobylt.
Geese always catch my attention when they honk past my house. A few months out of the year they will visit our pond in the mornings and evenings. The honking is a very pleasant sound.
It is cool to watch them change birds that pull point duty on a flight. They really got it together.
Are John and Ken still around?
I live in the southwest desert – Even we get them flying overhead. The honking cracks me up. It’s like a parade in the sky. 😀
” It’s like a parade in the sky.”
That’s the funniest way I’ve ever heard anybody describe it. I’ll remember that next time they pass this way too.
🙂
One foggy day I spent 30 minutes blowing a spec call pulling a lone goose in. Suddenly got low and came swinging in thru the haze. I killed him and ate him. And he was good.?You all should check out what’s going on in the nesting ground of Canada with geese and over population. Your eyes are in the front people. That means you are predators.
Do you know why one side of the V is longer than the other?
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There are more geese in it.
My 5 year old nephew came up with that one!
Damn Claudia, Send that youngster out here. We’ll go full on Duck O Holic. Yea it’s an addiction.
We get guinea hens in our yard once in a while. They eat bugs and spiders so i usually keep my dogs inside and let them feast away. They make a mass-cackling sound and you can hear a hoard of those things approaching from a quarter mile away. Taste a bit gamey, from what I hear. But it’s always good to know there are groceries roaming around out there in the woods.
Excellent post MJA and a great reminder that in the grand scheme of things d-bags like Obama, Trudeau and the lot are but blips in the timeline.
Domestic geese make great watch dogs. And of the only geese I ever ate was one of my uncles domestic geese which didn’t turn out too well because my Aunt didn’t do a good job of cooking it right, it was far too greasy. But my brother had some domestic geese a few years ago for Thanksgiving that were incredibly good because he’s a pretty decent cook. And watching Canadian geese honk and fly South every fall never gets old. The only thing cooler is in late Winter and early Spring when the Tundra swans migrate North and stop by the hundreds and thousands on some of the small lakes in North Idaho before fling North to the Arctic. It’s quite a magnificent sight and takes my breath away every time I see them.
We have a lake in our neighborhood with Canada geese that keep breeding and that don’t ever leave. Believe me, they are filthy vermin. Nothing majestic about them at all. I would live to kill them all, but unfortunately, that is apparently illegal.
Flying North to the Arctic. I don’t know how you fling a goose or a tundra swan unless you use a catapult. Bring back the edit function please
Yep, goose poop is gross. I would agree with that, especially around parks with ponds and golf courses. My golden retriever loves to chase them though when we take her out for walks and there are geese around.
Lol! They still fling turkeys in Arkansas; from an airplane or helicopter. PETA was offering a reward for the I.D. of the last “phantom” pilot who flung turkeys. The turkeys love it! They don’t usually get to fly that high. 😉
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My home is in a flyway zone so I get to enjoy this scene year after year. We have to use trained dogs to chase the geese off the
beach. It works great but now we are overrun with dogs.
We have some flocks in Tallahassee which have taken up full time residence. They don’t bother with that Canada migration stuff.