Those geese are the most ornery critters I have ever encountered, afraid of absolutely nothing and quite formidable when they stand up in "attack mode".
When I lived in Schaumburg IL, it was infested with those rats-with-wings that crapped all over every horizontal surface. In the spring when they had young, they were obnoxious as hell. One day one tried to attack me while I was riding home on a MUP. It attacked head-on launching its self into the air at me, and just before it reached me...the brake lever on my mtn bike caught it right in the chest, flipping it backward out of the air.
