On the look out.
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I was sitting at the table eating this morning and see this guy on the look out. His mate was down below. I saw one in a old hawk nest two days in a row. I saw one sitting on the barbed wire fence one morning. I would guess they will nest in the pasture. They have spent a fair amount of time looking it over. There is a pair across the road too.
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Re: On the look out.
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How's the soil moisture now Mark?
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Please don't think I'm being a smartbutt but what type of bird is it?
I truly cant tell by the picture.
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Re: On the look out.
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b&b I have some dirt work I wanted to do, and it is to wet to run the skid across the lawn. I would leave ruts. The slough by the house is over flowing into the one north of it. Soggy cathryn It is a Canada Goose. grumpa We had a very late spring and I thought this pair had started nesting in the cattails just below the tree the way they acted. We got a couple big snows and if they were, the nest would have been flooded. There would have been 5-6 foot of snow over it before it melted. I have not see a gosling here yet. I feel a lot of ducks and geese lost nest due to the four foot of snow we got in a week. We needed the moisture bad. There were sloughs that were dry that the old cattle ranchers say they had never seen dry. So I was glad to get rain yesterday on top of what moisture we got out of the snow. They are talking a good chance of rain again tonight and tomorrow.
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I'thought is was a Canadian goose but ive never seen a Canadian goose in a tree around here. neat
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I saw a Canada goose in a tree a few years back. I was really surprised to see it, too.
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Canada geese will sit in trees, on roof tops, and any high view advantage point when nesting :-)
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I saw them once sitting on top of rail cars feeding on the grain, that was spilled while they were filling them.
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Seeing canadian goose babies here. About the size of quail so hatch is just starting.
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Yellowstone Are they nesting in old hawk nests? I floated the Missouri River years ago from Loma to the James Kipp Recreation Area (129 miles), when I lived in Gt Falls MT. There were dirt pillars along some of the dirt cliffs. Some were 100+ feet tall and there was often geese nesting on them. I should maybe make that trip again.
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Do yhe gosling just jump out of the nest like wood ducks?
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cathryn Yes they do. I have seen video of the Aleutian Canada goslings jumping out of nest on rock cliffs and bouncing all the way down. Most of them jump up and take off running to mom.
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Oleo Acres What makes the vermin there?
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