----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Loveless" Subject: Re: PESO: I Want a Goose!
> Only later did I realize I had forgotten the number 1 rule about chasing > geese: Don't! I had goose poop on my tires, spokes, pedals, frame, > shoes, pant legs and probably my hat. Next time I'll just wait. Heathen big rats with wings is what they are. Regina had, at one time, a natural gas driven power plant that used water from the small man made lake that the city resides beside for cooling the turbines. Some time in the 1950s, someone decided that the beautiful several hundred acre park on the shores of the small man made lake needed Canada Geese, and some were brought in. The lake water was warmed from the power plant, and stayed open year round, so the geese had a very soft life, and prospered as only pampered geese can do. I believe the flock now measures in the thousands, and even though the power plant shut down thirty or more years ago, forcing the geese to begin migrating again, they continue to call Wascana Park their summer home. Every couple of years, some poor fool on a bicycle comes around the wrong bend in the bike path surrounding the lake and runs into more goose trouble than they imagined could happen. If they don't wipe out, loosing traction on the goosepoop slick path, they risk having a gander take a shot at them. Ganders can be very bad tempered, and are not all that afraid of people. I think they are more wary of us than afraid of us. They are best left alone, unapproached unless you are certain they are dead. The best way to deal with them is with a 12 guage. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
