katsrevenge

I just snorted tea. Hilarious and yet so very wrong. Generally they shoot them. "Trimming" them like grass is... why am I laughing so hard????

Saving Hawaii

What if we could train said Canuck Geese as bike theft deterrents? Nobody be jacking a bike under full on Canada Goose attack. There's a lot of potential here. All you'd have to do is tow a pond in your trailer.

no motor?

Take em back, eh? It's your beer that we want down here.

cooker

It seems like an eternity.

RPK79

The whole problem could be solved by installing signs informing the geese to stay off of the MUP and every once in awhile adding a 'goose crossing' sign so they have a place to get across where cyclists will be watching for them.

wphamilton

It may sound strange but I kind of like Canada geese. I was good friends with a pair of them for years, back when I was walking a lot. They knew me by sight and would come waddling up when I called them. They were still wild though, and would do the hissing wing-flapping thing if anyone came too close, including other geese. I eventually introduced them to my family, who were accepted straight away and the third year they showed up with three gosling, and introduced them to us, and we all got along famously. They'd guard the trail with the "sentry" at the edge of the group, neck stretched up keeping an eye out, but the male (I called him Honker) wanted me to take turns doing it and he was sometimes vocal about it. That was a little surreal even for me, to be chewed out for slacking by a goose flock leader.

noglider 

I like Canada geese, too. They're not smart, and they're not nice, but they're beautiful. Don't mess with them, because if they hurl their worst at you, you'll probably be OK, but you're better off without it. Walking around as if they own the place is their right, as they may have preceded us here. I don't know why they are called Canada geese. Perhaps it's because they migrate to Canada in the summer? The population seems centered around New Jersey. You see them year round in New Jersey.

Ramona_W

I thought they migrated from Canada in the winter because it's warmer here than it is up there. But it's even warmer in Tijuana so why stop in New Jersey or Washington state instead of going for the gusto? Silly geese.

Wanderer

They are like riding over a rotten log..................... and they still don't move.................

JamesRL

Many do migrate from Canada to the US south (watch a movie called Fly Away Home). Others decide to just go a shorter distance, if they can find a suitable place.

They are a nuisance here as well, but protected. In some areas, like Toronto's High Park, they ruin areas of the park and turn it into a muddy poopy mess by eating the grass down to the root.

There have been some controlled culls, but public opinion gets involved, and there haven't been any for some time that I'm aware of.

They aren't particularly tasty either. Domestic geese or snow geese are better to eat.

Tundra_Man 

We have a ton of them on the entire MUP, which follows the river through town. Often I see parents (I'm assuming who aren't from around here) encouraging children to "go pet the tame birds here in the park." Never ends well.

Also, a poster above mentioned the possibility of dispersing them with an air horn. I've blasted them with my AirZound when there's been a whole flock of them standing in the path. Doesn't even phase them. All they do is turn to face me and start hissing. Apparently they're aware of the Stand Your Ground laws.

One of the funniest things I've seen one day on my commute to work was a guy running in the opposite direction at top speed. He came around the corner, saw me and screamed, "Geeeeeeeeeesssssssseeee!" Not far behind from around the corner came a whole flock of geese that had taken after him. I'm not sure what he did to anger them, but they weren't happy. As they went by me in hot pursuit I nearly fell off my bike from laughing.

noglider 

The only thing worse is probably a turkey. Don't mess with large birds.

Papa Tom

We've got a big problem with them out here on Long Island. My town has an aggressive program to keep them away, but nothing they've tried has even made a dent. At certain times of year, the poop is just everywhere. Make sure that, when you remove your tires, you thoroughly wash the green stuff off your hands afterward.

Darth Lefty 

Our goose is cooked!

Around here they poop all over playgrounds and athletic fields. They poop on the shoreline bike paths too, but your feet aren't in it.

no motor?

I don't mind them that much, they don't bother me and I don't bother them as long as we each don't get to close. I'll take a flock of geese over some of the dog walkers and iPod zombies I've seen anyday.

alan s 

The obvious solution for zombie geese is for them to not wear headphones.

Notso_fastLane

It does. The Airzound scatters them better than the fireworks they used at the airport.

Squeeze

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!

erig007

Wut, human???



Geese vs coyote
[Really? That's all you've got?]


Geese vs gorilla
[Hey you, come here!]

[That's what i thought!]


Geese vs Humans
[1 down 7.19999... billions to go]


[Come on, Human! Give up!]
[Nah, never!]


[Damn Human! Give me my food]


[Guys keep going. It's almost over...let's see, where's my 50?]

wolfchild

I just don't get it, all you people who have problems with Canada geese ??...I pass a family of geese with the young ones almost everyday along one the MUPS which I use...I can pass them within 1-2 feet distance and they never ever bother or threaten me in any way.

wolfchild

This one made me LOL so hard I almost choked on my food.

noglider 

That's because you're smart enough not to bother them.

I had an obnoxious cow-orker who thought he could get away with harassing them. He got what he deserved. One goose dive-bombed him and knocked him to the ground. Justice is served!

2manybikes

After the goslings are grown up and don't need mom and dad around, a good herding dog will get them to leave for a while. Eventually they may come back. I don't let the dog chase them when the goslings are around, I believe the parents will not back down. As you are finding out.

TransitBiker

Handlebar mounted net launchers are clearly the answer.

- Andy

2manybikes

Fixed.