Jail Break
Follow up to What’s Good for the Goose …
The next morning I woke up to the sound of geese at my front window starting at about 6:30am. Every 15 minutes, three adult geese would come around the front of the house, honking and calling for the oldest gosling. They would pause by the garage door, honking as if to check to be sure he was still in there, and then continue their circle around the house.
I went out around 9am to move the babies out to their pens for the day. Sure enough, about five minutes later here come the geese. They parked themselves by the pen and continued to squawk at the gosling. I walked away to do something else and came right back. In the meantime, there’d been a jail break! One of the geese pulled open the pen and out ran the oldest gosling. The other two little ones had no intention of leaving and stayed in the pen. This seemed to confuse the geese because, even though they had freed the one they were obsessing over, they hung around the pen for the rest of the day. They would leave briefly to go over to the pool to swim but, thankfully, stayed away from the pond. They finally left in late afternoon.
They continued to come by today off and on, but are a bit less obsessive now. The gosling comes with them and hopefully they won’t take him to the pond any time soon. You gotta’ love a family bond.
~Karin