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Getting to Know You => Sharing, Fun, & Silliness => Topic started by: Avery on May 05, 2007, 01:55:08 PM

Title: Baby Geese!
Post by: Avery on May 05, 2007, 01:55:08 PM
So on the path to my boyfriend Eric's apartment here at Rutgers, there's this planter, and a goose made a nest there. Mrs Goose has patiently sat there for about a month, while Mister Goose wanders around, hissing at people some days, sitting there looking depressed other days. Now, though, the geese have hatched! I come bearing photos and videos! Photos on Flickr. Video on YouTube.

Photos:

http://flickr.com/photos/kapera/sets/72157600180287626/ (http://flickr.com/photos/kapera/sets/72157600180287626/)

Videos:

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Koorika (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Koorika)


They're so cute, they made me melt.
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Post by: Dana on May 05, 2007, 02:12:04 PM
Adorable  :love5:  I want to cuddle them
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Post by: Jane on May 05, 2007, 02:29:40 PM
Lovely things.  Is there a pond nearby?
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Post by: Mikel on May 05, 2007, 03:20:27 PM
Here are part of the flocks that hang around our campus.

These guys are looking in the building next to mine

(https://www.triadweyrs.org/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi177.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fw201%2Fghotitank%2FP5040114.jpg&hash=e27e0ca58652bbfc6ccaa67ea357d8f6833ab7e9)


And here they are outside my window.

(https://www.triadweyrs.org/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi177.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fw201%2Fghotitank%2FP5040112.jpg&hash=c7edcb8a78b8758c291b4c37f6c246d9771ac178)
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Post by: Patrick on May 05, 2007, 05:41:07 PM
Aww they are so cute.
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Post by: Yvonne on May 05, 2007, 06:20:19 PM
Awwww!! I love Canada Geese! They're so cute when they're little and fluffy!

Once, when we were canoieng one May Long Weekend when I was about 13, we found a little gosling that had been swept away from its mum and was swimming valiantly downstream peeping all the way. So we picked him up and I got to cuddle a goose for the next 2 days until he was packed off onto a friend's farm. He grew up thinking he was a turkey until the fall, when he suddenly saw the other geese in the sky and skedaddled south. :)
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Post by: Eimi on May 05, 2007, 06:30:18 PM
QuoteHe grew up thinking he was a turkey until the fall, when he suddenly saw the other geese in the sky and skedaddled south.


How very odd... I grew up thinking I was a turkey too.....   :happy7:
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Post by: Jane on May 05, 2007, 08:19:05 PM
Quote from: "Eimi"
QuoteHe grew up thinking he was a turkey until the fall, when he suddenly saw the other geese in the sky and skedaddled south.
How very odd... I grew up thinking I was a turkey too.....   :happy7:
Did something happen to change your mind? :laughing5:
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Post by: Eimi on May 05, 2007, 09:25:15 PM
QuoteDid something happen to change your mind?

Yes, I now believe I am a quail ;)
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Post by: Yvonne on May 05, 2007, 11:15:40 PM
Quote from: "Eimi"Yes, I now believe I am a quail ;)

... you know, that explains a heck of a lot.
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Post by: Eimi on May 06, 2007, 12:32:43 AM
Quote... you know, that explains a heck of a lot.

Yes, I am actually the lost member of the Partridge family.
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Post by: Mikel on May 06, 2007, 07:12:47 AM
Quote from: "Eimi"
Quote... you know, that explains a heck of a lot.

Yes, I am actually the lost member of the Partridge family.

*sings* Come on get happy
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Post by: Avery on May 06, 2007, 10:49:50 AM
Awwww, Yvonne, that sounds cool! Cuddle one? Sounds lovely!

BTW, when Eric and I came out of the apartment this morning...they were gone :( Mummy and Daddy took them off. I'm sad that I didn't get to spend more time looking at them- only ONE day? Is that even enough time before they're expected to go marching off? *sniff* But I hope they're happy, wherever they are.
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Post by: Ainsley on May 07, 2007, 02:41:38 PM
They really were adorable.  We usually head to the park and river Sunday afternoons, but I don't think we have any baby geese just yet.  I did see some ducklings...Although, this early in spring it is not uncommon to get a run of cold weather just yet!  

Sorry your little ones moved away so quickly, Avril! :crybaby: