Proud parents came to make our day!
Here is the cherry on the top! Five girls and one boy and what a wonderful gift to see early this morning!
Some of you know that "Harry" and his wife "Sally" are wild Egyptian geese that come to breed here during winter every year. Well this is the first time that we see their babies, Last year they had 12, but that was before we moved in here, so we didn't see their babies last year. But oh, it was so great to see them today.
Come and look at the parade!
Sally is the noisy one and here she calls all and sunder to come and have a look at their kids!
Not much different to our lives is it?
Harry looked like he needed a cigar hahaha.
The 5 girls next to mom and the little boy next to his dad!
Mom of course is letting all of us know about their arrival.
We were prepared for them as we knew that Sally was nesting, but we didn't know if they would bring their babies here.
Marian feeds everthing that breathes, ants, moths, centipedes, poor people and I am sure even aliens that supply a friend of mine @meesterboom with hooch :)
Of course this Lady is like a mother to the geese, as she is a very caring soul and other neighbors were out with their mobile phones to snap the procession!
Time for a rest after the meal, but Sally is a very protective mom and you can see her peeping at me!
Other neigbors like "Squirry" here also came to have a look at the babies!
No, squirrels don't eat baby geese!
Mom and the kids resting and a proud father on guard as always.
Harry protected the territory every day alone while Sally was on the nest.
And then it is nightime now and we don't know how many of the small ones will survive this winter night with it's soft rainfall.
Our coldest month is July and we can so clearly see the wisdom of the geese here.
Sadly not all of the babies will survive the winter, but those that pull through will be the strongest ones that will be able to take care of themselves as they grow up.
The law of nature is that the strongest and the fittest will survive and the weak will become food for the predators.
I will as usual be patrolling every day and listen for Harry's alarm call, but we really hope that some of them will survive. We learned that nature doesn't answer to our wishes and I am also very hestant to interfere, unless it's one of the well fed cats here that tries his luck. Fortunately the cats are scared of Harry and it's more the Falcons and the Hawks that I have to watch out for.
But, we will see how it goes.
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I'm glad those aliens are getting well fed from someone ;0)
Such cute little geese!!
Maybe I should just have typed a friend of mine and not tagged you, but then you wouldn't have seen the joke!
I am in a very good mood after seeing rhose little ones and their parents care for them.
I am told that last year they had 12 and only one survived!
Flying predators took most of them, as they come in at a terrific speed and Harry is not very agile on the ground!
Hehe, I don't mind a tagging!
I was explaining that sort of thing to my daughter the other day. She got it wow quickly when I was explaining that not many mate it to adulthood. We were talking about praying mantises right enough!!
The predators are fiendishly clever. They sit and watch when Harry is up on the street light pole, as they know he can flip off and fly in an instant.
So they wait, as sooner or later Harry has to come down to eat. Then Sally and the babies will join him and that's when they strike to collect one of the babies.
But I have a surprise waiting for them, as I have shifted the feeding place to the front of the carport. Now there is only one way in and I don't think that they will try anything.
That is clever! There might be a lesser casualty rate this year!
Will have to wait and see, as they are clever buggers.
Pity I like them so much (the falcons and eagles), but I won't hurt them.
Just scare the living daylights out of them :)
Scaring is good. Serves them bloody right!!
Our old dustbins, the thing that we put our thrash in are made of metal, with a big round metal lid. We learned as kids that when you bang on the lid with a stone, it sounds like a gun shot.
I will not be surprized if some of the birds will have to go see their doctor for tinnitus when I am finished with them.
Awesome!! I wish is were still made of metal. They are big plastic beasts. You could literally live in one. And they are no use for banging and making a noise!!
Hahaha, you surely know how to let go with mirth dude.
Plastic beasts. You can live in one!
I presume you are talking about the big ones that we call wheelie bins over here.
I think that they started to roll them out about 5 or 6 years ago over here.
The metal bins all started dissappearing, same as the cast iron drain covers in the roads and the hand-railings on the bridges. Even the steel poles of the traffic lights went missing overnight.
All shipped in contaiers to Asia by our local metal thieving syndicates.
Ah yes, wheelie bins they are the big thing here. Have been for ten or fifteen years. I remember our metal bins well. They were a nightmare and were always full, lol!
All the metals go to Asia. Maybe they are building a giant metal robot to enslave the west! :OD
As boys we had a street band that specialized in Beatle songs.
Holes were cut in 5 liter flat metal cans and long flat sticks was forced into the can's drain hole. 4 lengths of gut string. 4 nails at the top of the flat plank, 4 at the bottom, tie each string top and bottom to the the nails and voila, you have a home made Fender Strat.
Take the old metal dustbin, lay it down and you have the beginnings of a big base drum. The pedal design gave us some grief until we found an old bed mattress. Cut it open and took one of the springs. Two short flat planks hinged together at one end and the spring fitted between the two planks, a short pipe shoved into a handrilled hole of a cricket ball and we had a base drum pedal. Dustbin lids as cymbals and some 25 litre cans upside down completed the drum set. Of course Ringo had an empty 5 liter can seat. Harrison of course only had 2 strings to his base.(Me of course as I didn't know how to play the minor chords)
Two broomsticks with empty round cans were the microphones for Paul an John.
We made such a racket on a Sunday morning playing "She loves me yeah, yeah, yeah" that after several warnings angry neighbors called the cops.
Unfortunately we had to disband the band!
People just don't appreciate good music methinks.😁
I think they dont. That would hve been a sight to behold. I have seen guitars and drums made of many things but never a band of bins!
Those bloody minor chords eh. They mess it up all the time hahaha!!
People can be such buzzkills!
Well now, I told you the story tongue in cheeck and I must admit that we made an awful racket. Especially Ringo banging away on those bins hahaha.
But we were inventive little sods that made mountains of trouble for ourselves.
If only people could think more like children!
The world would be a finer place!
Or maybe everything would be goosed cos no one would bother doing anything and they would just be running about having fun, lol
Jeah, you are right, as I didn't think about the side effects hahaha.
Awwwwwww, they are such cute furry (fluffy?) bundles! Thank you for sharing these shots... :)
Happy Sunday!!
Thank you and they are real little cuties.
Amazing how tiny they are and how they waddle when they walk.
My pleasure to share them my friend.
Hope that you will have a good week!
I wish we had wild geese like these...
A good week to you too!
Sorry that you don't have my dear friend.
Blessings!
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How do you know the sexes?
Okay, look carefully at the tag picture.
All of the girls are black and white, but the guy in the middle is a brown color.
I will see if I have another picture that shows the colors more clearly.
"Black chicks can be boys too!"
I have no idea, but it sounds like something that would get someone into trouble out of context ;D
Oh my goodness, remind me never to touch on this subject with you again :)
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Thank you Lady Liz.
Glad that you liked the post and we share the love for nature.
Blessings!
What a beautiful collection! Such proud parents. It's so nice that Marian feeds everybody. If we all did that, perhaps we could solve world hunger?
It's hard to know when to interfere with nature. The unfortunate truth is that only the strongest survive, as you said, and yet species benefit from the stronger gene pool over time, I guess!
Thank you my friend.
We live a life of frugality and stick to the basics.
Sometimes I think that the food for the animals, like big bags of peanuts for the squirrels, dried worms for the robins and the thrushes, health brown bread for the geese, fruit for the other birds and and and costs more than our own meals hahahah.
Sally dissappeared overnight with the babies into the wild, so I won't have to worry about the predators. I think that they have a safe place somewhere.
But it was so great to see them and I am glad that she came to show them to us.
Aren't they just too gorgeous and the parents have reason to be so very proud! But they know how to make a noise those parents but they are also beautiful!
Sadly they all disappeared overnight Lady Lizelle.
Some of the residents saw Sally and her babies walk out of the main gate of the complex and now they could be anywhere in the wild.
But thankfully geese are creatures of habit and they will know where a safe place is.
So, we will only see the survivors as adults again.
Once the small ones can fly, Harry and Sally will repeat last year, by paying us a final visit to eat and drink a last meal before they depart into the blue yonder.
Next year when the return for the winter nesting season, Harry will fight with his adult kids aagain to reclaim this territory.
But I think Sally is getting old, as she only had six little ones compared to the 12 of last year.
Stay well my dear friend.
Oh! And thank you kindly for your kind help with the money transfer thing, as we came right in the end.
Awe! They are so cute! It's lovely to see them so accustom to humans that they parade around in your courtyard like that!
Once the gooslings hatch so they not take them to the water? that's what the Canada Geese do here and you will see parades of goslings walking across the road to ponds near by.
I do hope they get some grown into adulthood!
Thanks for sharing - I love the babies!
Cute indeed my friend and the night after the parade they left here.
We still see Harry occasionally, as he pops in for a bite, but Sally and the babies have disappeared.
You are correct as they are at either a farm dam or the river somewhere.
Pleasure to share and glad that you liked it.
Blessings!