Did they bring any weed with them? I hear that's some primo medical grade $hit. :D

I'm still calling them Canadian. j/k

You know your project at work is starting to bore you when you read the entire wikipedia entry on the canada goose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Goose

Sure, but that doesn't help with the poop being slippery when wet.

Knobbies.

release a couple coyotes onto the path. Your goose problem will disappear in about 24 hours.

Then when the coyotes become a problem, release a couple gorillas onto the path.

Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

Geese in Central New York absolutely are a nuisance. They think they own the place, and they've even been expanding their influence through legislation somehow. The last straw was the signs on Onondaga Lake Parkway that read along the lines of, "Caution! Slow! Geese!" Seriously?

Sorry that's a poorly framed analogy - unless of course you are thinking that the OP is a goose and this forum is a bikepath??...:eek:...:twitchy:...otherwise I just don't get your point.

Of course that might explain it - perhaps I just haven't taken the time to really sit back and appreciate how cunningly insightful your post was...:thumb:

Great, now we have to accommodate mentally disabled geese as well?

Calling Dick Cheney

They're only Canadian if they are from Canada. In which case, they are Canadian Canada Geese.
According to experts who are supposed to know about such things, Canada Goose Poo is not a health hazard, unless you fall because of it. Dog Poo, on the other hand, is a health hazard.
Run the other way real fast if you see the VP coming to shoot geese.

Uh huh.

Well, there's no need to curse! :mad:

Ride on baby!

Dealing with geese
 

I bike along the I&M canal path, southwest of CHicago. I was once dive bombed twice after I had zipped past a family that had already safely exited the path for the water just before I passed. Momma was just one angry bird!! Have been chased down the trail this year. 6' wing span filling the rear view mirror is intimidating. Today encountered the same two geese and their 9 not yet flying progeny, just spread all over the trail and grazing in the grass at the side. Made all the noise I could but they just went about their business. After a ten minute wait while they waddled a few feet down the path, someone coming from the other direction, who also stopped, apparently convinced them to exit far enough for me to get by. This time only got hissed at. But seeing that they can cause mayhem and not really wanting to risk a fall (the last one resulted in a new hip), I guess I'll just wait them out.

Zombie Thread Alert! Six years sleeping.
And the danged Geese are still a major nuisance.

Haha! We send all our unwanted crap south, like geese and Justin Bieber.

Geese make great guard "dogs."

http://www.npr.org/2012/05/05/152092...ese-saved-rome

Zombie threads are fun. I got taken down by a duck once. It became startled when I rode by and it flew right . . . into . . . my . . . rear wheel. It took me down fast. I was picking out duck feathers from my campy NR RD for a while. The front wheel was so bent up from the crash that I had to pop off the front brake so that it would pass through the frame after I "trued" the wheel by slamming it into the pavement for a while. And then I still have around 10 miles to ride to get home.

Just think how bad it would be if there were still wild bison on your path. And yes they lived as far east as the Adirondacks.


Oops - there probably were wild bison in New York when this thread was new.

Six years ago? There were wild bison in New York six years ago? Or are we talking some non-standard definition of years like when people want to argue about if the Bible means "days" when it says "days"? (Haven't got a dog in the fight either way. Just looking for clarification and feeling a little sassy cuz it's my Friday.)

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????

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.

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

It seems like an eternity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.