I meant Cayuga Lake State Park (in Seneca Falls), not Seneca Lake
State Park (where a handful of snow geese have been residing year
round).

Suan


On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:21 PM Suan Hsi Yong <suan.y...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yesterday afternoon the snow geese hung out on the shore of some
> houses between Seneca Lake State Park and Wolffy's. Many visitors got
> to see them, though parking on lawns became a problem which prompted
> the police to come by to remind people to stay off private property.
>
> I was there a couple hours waiting for an eruption which didn't
> happen. The geese were remarkably tame - some of them anyways - as
> they came ashore to forage on the lawns sometimes quite close to
> people. This contradicts my assumption that they were always wary of
> people, in the past preferring places like Knox-Marsellus or the
> middle of the lake far enough away from people.
>
> At around 5pm, a three gunshots fired, which sent the flock into the
> sky - the eruption I had been waiting for - but relative to other
> eruptions I've seen in the past they seemed to resettle fairly quickly
> in my opinion, and if anything they came in closer to shore, just
> repositioned a little farther away from the hunters on the boat to the
> south. I think they only picked up 2 or 3. Not a bad day's harvest, I
> suppose, but certainly not a high percentage :-), and barely putting a
> dent in the overpopulation problem. In the next ten minutes or so two
> single shots were fired -- on both occasions, the goose cacophony
> would pause for a full second of silence before continuing, and to my
> surprise, on both occasions no geese took flight. It was as if the
> geese had figured out that if they stayed in close to the houses they
> would be safe from the hunters!
>
> Less conspicuously though no less remarkable, IMO, was a scattering of
> ducks offshore from the geese -- some pepper to complement the heavy
> dose of salt. They were mostly Aythyas off all kinds, and did not raft
> tightly like the redheads like to do. On several occasions a passing
> boat would send large numbers of them into the sky as they circled
> back and forth before resettling.
>
> Here's a video of the snow geese: https://youtu.be/r2GdMs7Lvzs
>
> Suan

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