One more bit of goose lore. These geese DON'T migrate. In the old days, before hunting limits, market hunters would kill hundreds of geese a day as their livelihood (I'm sure you've seen the pictures).
While bag limits were being proposed, the market hunters illegally captured huge flocks (gaggles?) of geese and started farming them so they would have a continual source of product to sell. These geese, over several generations, were domesticated and LOST their desire to migrate. The golf course geese you see are all descendants of "escapees" from these original flocks. (About the only useful information I've ever obtained while reading magazines in my doctor's office :-) /Ed Dave Tutelman wrote:
At 04:26 PM 11/21/02 -0800, you wrote:
Unfortunately, that was a reason for migrating Canada geese (yeah, blame Canada :-) not to migrate any further south than Holmdel -- hence a huge goose population in the pond.
