{"id":5127,"date":"2012-05-10T07:30:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T14:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5127"},"modified":"2012-05-10T07:32:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T14:32:28","slug":"protective-geese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5127","title":{"rendered":"Protective geese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If any locals are concerned that we might run out of Canada Geese this year, fear not. There is a large, fresh, crop preparing to embellish our lawns and parks.<\/p>\n<p>Usually when I see goose chicks with parents, the watery parade is a stately, even prideful, affair. Last year&#8217;s picture, characterizes this.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, I watched three goose families swim past other geese without chicks. The parents were doing a large amount of posturing, in particular, all used the head-forward challenge. According to one\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wdfw.wa.gov\/living\/canada_geese.html\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>,\u00a0this display is used to ward off aggression.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that the parents were making a statement to the adjacent chickless geese: &#8220;keep your distance, these are <em>our<\/em> babies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is typical outing for an isolated family of Canada Geese&#8212;look at the adult necks (May 2011).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5133\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/goosefamily110531s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The head forward display suggests that the parents are telling adjacent geese to stay away.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5129\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/geese120506as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are <em>our<\/em>\u00a0goslings!&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5128\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/geese120506bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If any locals are concerned that we might run out of Canada Geese this year, fear not. There is a large, fresh, crop preparing to embellish our lawns and parks. Usually when I see goose chicks with parents, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5127\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5127"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5150,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions\/5150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}