The Lost Gosling Returns Home
Walking around a small pond I noticed two Canada Geese and their brood cruising slowly and rubber necking the whole time. I wondered what was up but not being a goose mind reader paid little attention and went round the pond to look at a beaver lodge. While checking out the lodge I startled this young gosling who was lounging on the bank. He high tailed out across the water where his parents were calling him - he received a dressing down from both parents as he cowered before them.
The Arboretum, Guelph
4 comments:
And here I thought that goose dressing had bread and onion in it.
Tough love for the gosling means the possibility of seeing adulthood. Humans could learn from this!
Sue
hey sue,
don't you think that the gosling is more threatnened by airplanes, disrution of migration zones, ducks unlimited and global warming? A photographer doesn't eat (many) goslings
parents always pick the easy things to correct
goose (and gosling) dressing is good with green onion and butter too.
Hey Sandy,
I wasn't thinking that baby bird was threatened by Randy. And of course all the human disruptions you mention are a menace for sure.
I was thinking Mamma Goose was likely more concerned with turtles....
Sue
Perhaps I was being a bit too anthropomorphic - maybe the adults were just ensuring it was indeed one of their own.
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