Vic Smith wrote:
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:31:35 -0400, HK wrote:


We have a lot of farms in our area, and many property owners with ponds.
The ponds attract geese and ducks and some property owners have swans.
All the critters seem to get along well enough. There's a ranchette
around the corner where the owners raise horses, ponies, and llamas.
When the crops on the fields around here are harvested, the geese move
in for a while. They're very pretty animals. We've had pheasant and wild
turkeys landing in our yard. Happily, most of the property owners around
here have banned hunters from their land.

Out of curiosity I plugged goose control swan into google and the
first result I clicked on was this
http://www.canadiangoosecontrol.com/...e_programs.php
Not too surprised to see my area code for their phone number.
Probably the migration path is heavier here than where you are.
Looks like the swans control the algae in the ponds too.
Nothing wrong with controlling goose populations with hunting, since
the alternatives aren't pretty. Don't hunt myself.

Since we infringed on their territory, I'm glad to see some of the wild
critters making do. They're certainly better neighbors than some
ticky-tacky subdivision would be.

That's very sweet, Harry. But what about skunks?

--Vic

At one time Harry actually would carry out his dinner leftovers leave
them for the wildlife to eat so him and his wife would enjoy their
company. This is known to be very negative for all wildlife so
hopefully he has stopped feeding them and are allowing them to fend for
themselves.