Posted by Billy NY on April 21, 2013 at 09:38:52 from (72.226.79.200):
In Reply to: Re: Geese again posted by Texasmark1 on April 21, 2013 at 05:56:06:
Its hard to say how it will evolve, I mean its kind of odd that you have a nesting pair in your location, not sure what part of Texas you are in, but one thing is for sure they won't have to migrate or migrate very far. They start to move when the weather really starts to turn north of us and up in those areas, the other kind the snow goose, the flocks are incredible, I have friends who like to birdhunt and usually make 1 trip up north to one of their parents place. I've taken them during the season and prepared/grilled the breast meat, its pretty good, red meat, though I am not a fan of it because I really do not know what they are eating, if there is an issue with any of that, when you think about it, they do eat some pretty good stuff from what I see here.
When they Molt, you could catch one and band it, see if the same ones come back, same with the young.
During migration season, the 20 acre pond here can be covered with them, until the ice forms, then they leave, if its nice up north, I don't have to listen to them while in my hunting stand, they are so noisy, but are silent at night until something alerts them I can always tell when a large predator is around just by listening to them.
They are just enough to be a problem with crops here and thats about 30 of them.
I've always tried to be fair to the wildlife, I look at it if the roles were reversed, I like to leave well enough alone, but there are times when its tough to do that, the only thing that will get planted this year is my food plots, so that one closest to the water I have to figure out a way to beat them, I may just plant something to keep them occupied. This year may be tough, I've not been very hard on them, since the farmer stopped using the one field we've had in crops a long long time, maybe if I keep up with the mowing they will stay closer, really hard to say, one thing is for sure they are always a consideration when planting anything here, and that was never the situation years ago, they never stayed here then, and there were not so many overall.
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