Earth Day comes one day a year – April 22nd. It should be every day in my humble opinion.
These days “Earthlings” must rejoice in every nature encounter because the flora and fauna that existed for most of our lives will one day be gone due to Man’s inability to care about Mother Earth. We spray harmful pesticides everywhere, causing countless butterflies and bees to bite the dust. Once upon a time, birds and animals were respected as fellow beings, but sadly no more, something I’ll dwell on later in this post.
Weather woes.
Since I began my walking regimen in 2011, I am much more in tune with the weather, consulting multiple weather sites daily before setting off on a walk, even though surely I am not made of sugar and won’t melt if it DOES rain.
But, the dramatic climate changes are much more worrisome to me. The weather across the world now is erratic and frightening. While walking I ponder many things and often reflect on how I, like most Michiganders, took our four distinct seasons for granted. Yes, there was the occasional welcome January thaw, or a need-to-grab-a-sweatshirt-before-heading-out day in August, but it was never the roller-coaster weather we experience nowadays.
I’ve taken a lot of long walks in nature recently to bolster my sagging walking stats which nosedived in Winter and early Spring. Winter and Spring were sparring most of March and early April, but once Spring erupted, it did so in earnest after a minor snowfall just the week before!
This past week was finally filled with sunshine and warm, even gentle breezes. Yes, I loved feeling the sun in my face and this time I wore a sun hat every day after burning at the Boardwalk at Dingell Park on March 13th when flukey weather ensued and temps soared to the 70s while I gazed at ice floes still clinking about in the Detroit River.
Last Thursday, I took a three-hour walk wherein the temps were 25 degrees above normal with a “real feel” of 90F (32C) by the time I got back to the car at 1:30 p.m. It was stinkin’ hot and yes, of course, I said I would not complain about the heat after our brutally cold Winter, but it was really TOO hot and TOO soon. There I said it and I thought it would take at least until June to utter those words.
The winds of change.
The expression “the winds of changes” almost became the title of this post, but I remembered this great Thoreau quote I had tucked away and used it instead.
Here in Michigan we have dealt with incessant gusty winds for months now, going back to last Fall. For a long time, I thought it was my imagination – was I not mindful of gusty winds in the past? Then I learned from two meteorologists I follow on social media that Michigan is one of five states dealing with above-average wind gust speeds.
This is due in part to our unsettled weather patterns of late.
Last weekend I strolled the shoreline at Lake Erie Metropark where Lake Erie’s waves were crashing onto the huge boulders. There was no wake from freighters, nor pleasure boats – the water was whipped up by the wind.
I was walking at Lake Erie Metropark exactly one year ago, marveling how many marshes were bone dry. While strolling on the wooden overlooks, instead of gazing into the water, I was looking at dirt and lifeless reeds. So, after spotting Paul Cypher, one of the interpretive guides on a trail, I stopped to ask him about this strange sight and his response was “the incessant winds are drying up the marshes” and then added “it is going to get worse.”
Well, Paul was correct and I saw this for myself right after photographing the wild-looking waves last week.
Not every marsh is dry, but the water levels are definitely down.
I’ve taken even more pictures this past week at other venues and it is the same thing. In this photo below you can see the shoreline is now mud. This makes me wonder what will happen to the habitat for all the waterfowl?
The plight of Michigan’s geese.
My heart continues to hurt about the destruction of my favorite nature nook, Council Point Park. Not only is there the scarcity of squirrels, reduced after Winter’s brutal circumstances, but now even the Canada geese, always in abundance at this venue, are scarce. I now wonder if goslings will debut at the Park as they usually do, just before Mother’s Day? We generally have up to five families of geese that appear in the months of May/early June. The geese nest along the shoreline, which continues to look raggedy and bare and the water level is very low there as well.
But, if I am dismayed daily by the plight of Council Point Park’s inhabitants, I was horrified to learn a few months ago about the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ grand plan to reduce Michigan’s Canada Geese population.
Their cruel and heartless plan is to eradicate many Canada Geese because they are a bother.
Yes, geese gather and produce copious amounts of droppings, some which eventually end up on beaches where people like to swim and the beaches are then closed due to contamination.
Yes, in the suburbs with lakefront properties, geese gather to graze, or they stop traffic to waddle slowly across a road.
Yes, the gander will hiss and flap his wings should you approach his mate as she sits on a nest or perchance you stray too close to his offspring. Geese, like swans and many other waterfowl mate for life and are loyal and protective of their mate, a value I’m sorry to say is not always found in humans.
I was horrified to learn that Michigan’s DNR are herding geese from large parks and some suburbs and once corralled, they are NOT relocating them to an area where they are less “bothersome” but instead they are killing them en masse by gassing them. But before this happens, the parents are separated from their goslings, a reason I don’t understand as the goslings are similarly gassed. These geese do not die instantly, but instead they try to hold their breath and sometimes live for 30 minutes or longer until, with their last gasps of breath they die.
As a nature lover, I am upset by this cruelty, which takes place very early in the morning, so it is accomplished as unobtrusively as possible. Additionally, the geese are captured in June and July when they molt and are without flight feathers, so they cannot fly from their captors.
The Michigan DNR is on board with this, saying all other remedies to shoo the geese away from areas where they bother people have failed. There were/are movements afoot to stop the cruelty of gassing geese, but to no avail as you see in this recent news article …
… or in this recent video.
I always participate in the Michigan DNR’s “Run for the Trees” event to assist in reforestation efforts in our national parks and other sites where wildfires have occurred.
I signed up for the event last December, so this will be my last time participating. I will find another charitable race event to benefit nature.
As I meander along the woodsy trails or waterfront walkways, I guess I will need to have a greater appreciation for my feathered friends – will there be a time when they are no longer with us?
Well this nature lover cries foul, er “fowl” … and, while all the geese won’t be gone, it is sad to think of possibly waving goodbye to cutie pie goslings like these.
Thinking about how deer herds are culled as deer cause vehicle accidents or they are bothersome is disturbing to me as well.
Stepping down from my soapbox now …
I will continue to do my part for Mother Earth. I once walked more than I drove my car and was proud to say my feet had more miles than my car tires in any given year. While this was good for MY health, it was not good for the car – my car has 15,600 miles and will be 16 years old in September. I now drive more than I walk to keep the car in good condition.
DTE, my energy provider, always congratulates me in their DTE Home Energy Report because: “you use X% less energy than your efficient neighbors” – yay me!
I am sure I am not exemplary, just doing my part to ensure Planet Earth is around longer.
P.S. The family of Canada Geese and the sweet goslings are from my media archives as no goslings have arrived yet, but I saw two different Mamas sitting on a nest this week, so hopefully it is not long now.
As promised in my Mother’s Day post, I am joining Terri’s recent Sunday Stills Challenge from earlier in the week: Earth Day.
Linda Schaub
WALKIN', WRITIN', WIT & WHIMSY 
Lots of lovely places Linda. Photos tell the story
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Thank you Brian. Glad you liked the photos and the story.
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Lovely all the place. Beautiful photos. I much like the tree & blue cloud.
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Glad you liked the photos Raj – it was a beautiful day.
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I’m so glad spring has finally made its way to you, Linda! 🌷 But, as you say, those weird days when the temperature is way above or way below normal are coming along more and more often. It’s terribly distressing. I love Thoreau’s words, so observant and still meaningful in our day and age. And now scientists have confirmed your view of the wind gusts getting more intense. When scientific data validates what we’ve been experiencing on our own it makes us realize we’re not imagining things or exaggerating them when we sound an alarm. I understand how you feel about gassing the geese to cull their overpopulation. It’s unbearably sad, since we are the ones who disrupted the natural balance and they are the ones paying the price for our greed and ignorance. It’s hard to know what solutions there are which won’t create new problems. So sad that the Michigan DNR supports something that makes it so you can no longer support them. Maybe we all need to check on our charities to make sure they still align with our values.
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I am so glad it finally feels like Spring here Barbara, yet this roller-coaster weather continues. It was so hot on Thursday, yet today, patchy frost was predicted for this morning, but we had a gorgeous day and now we have possible severe weather again for Tuesday afternoon/evening. I really don’t recall the weather being so erratic and unpredictable in all my years.
I like that Thoreau quote too.
I am sad about the plight of the geese and yes, they can be annoying sometimes – I get angry when they amble over to eat the food I leave for the squirrels and birds. When the geese are near where I usually leave food, I can’t put it there and I see the birds or squirrels get ready to grab their treats when they see me, only to see me walk on. This morning it was great because there were no geese nearby, so I saw two Red-bellied Woodpeckers, a Flicker, a Mourning Dove, about eight Jays, two Chickadees and a pair of Cardinals. Still a minimal amount of squirrels but one was in a tree, not two feet from my head.
At Council Point Park for year they sprayed with grape seed extract every Summer to deter the geese from grazing there. The product is sprayed on grass and numbs the area around their bill, so they move on. It is like an anesthetic which wears off but the geese are smart enough not to graze there again. By the Fall, they stopped spraying the grass and the geese return from the Detroit River, a few miles away where they go, safe from land predators, while they molt and until their flight feathers grow back in and they can fly. This is very inhumane, so I won’t be supporting the DNR in the future. There are plenty of charities, even animal rehab organizations, I will support instead.
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I never heard of using grape seed extract to deter the geese from specific areas. Years ago, back in Connecticut, the local golf course used a dog that they let run all over the golf course, chasing the geese away. A golf course seems like a perfect place to use the grape seed extract. Maybe it’s prohibitively expensive to use. I miss the sound of Canada geese honking as they flew overhead. They stayed all winter and flew back and forth from the creek to the pond and to the river…
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They used it successfully at Council Point Park for years. But at the same token, for June and July most of the geese left and went to the Detroit River a couple of miles away to stay in the water, safe from land predators while molting and having no flight feathers. So, people could come to the Park and not have geese around. The Zoom meeting I watched about the geese a few months ago showed options, like the grape seed spray – sometimes they just apply it like a fertilizer company would put liquid spray on a lawn, but they also have a large machine that looks like a “snow machine for ski resorts” and it is constantly spraying out the grape seed mixture in different areas from dawn to dusk. I imagine it would be quite costly. I like the idea of a dog chasing the deer away – I’m sure after a few times, they get the message and move on.
Right now they are debating what to do with the excess of deer we have here in our more northern suburbs. I have been listening to the live meeting where they will decide on bow-and-arrow hunting, sharp-shooters or sterilization. There are advocates for the deer there as well. I always look to the sky when I hear a flock of geese, especially the large formations you see sometimes – I marvel at them. I am sad about what will be done to any animals/birds that are now unwanted.
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It has been my understanding that Canada geese have been under some kind of legal protection in the US for quite a few years now. They were a rare sight when I was a kid, but are almost everywhere now.
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You are correct JP – the Canada Geese are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act which Act protects them and other migratory birds, but I just Googled to get the full name of the Act and only the Department of Interior U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service can change that determination. I am disappointed in whatever organization deems it important to eradicate the geese by such a cruel method, when they could be rounded up and placed somewhere to not bother humans. I know one of the problems is that geese are smart and will return to where they were living before but in the interim, to thwart their return, there are measures such as spraying with grape seed extract which numbs the bird’s beak preventing them from eating, similar to getting an anesthetic at the dentist – it is painless and is not permanent. They did this at Council Point Park for years to prevent geese from congregating there in the Summer months.
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A thought-provoking post on the changes we are seeing in our weather patterns, Linda, along with your gorgeous pics of Earth’s beautiful birds and lakes. I’ve read carbon dioxide is the culprit in global warming throughout Earth’s history. Maybe we’re heading the way of the dinosaurs, or gearing up for another ice age. We can all do our part but so many other countries like China pollute in untold quantities. I fear we will adjust like our ancestors did but at least we will unlikely see this process with our own eyes.
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I am glad you liked the photos Terri and I rarely write about such a serious topic, however, it is worrisome to see what is happening to our environment and being powerless to change what we have done. The weather is not normal anymore and whether we do return to another ice age or live life in temps that are like a blast furnace, I don’t see it returning to normal in our lifetime. I am a weather worrier, so I dwell on this topic a lot, just not writing about it.
The plight of the geese I had to address because I think it is cruel and heartless and there are other methods to eradicate the geese. I know removing them physically to another location doesn’t work. They have their own built-in GPS and will return, but at Council Point Park, there was a grape seed spray applied which deterred the geese from grazing there. When the geese ate the grass the area around their bill was numbed, like if you go to the dentist. It was temporary and they just wouldn’t graze there. So off they went, to the River to await their new feathers and by Labor Day, the grape seed application had worn off, the geese returned. The grape seed spray is not just for commercial use. It is sold in stores and often used by lakefront property owners to deter the geese.
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Well, this was a depressing post! Locally we are not allowed to feed wildlife in the parks which is something parents did with small children. Nothing to encourage geese, ducks or anything of the sort. If you don’t want to see wildlife, go to a golf course!
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Sorry about that Kate. 🙂 I rarely write a post like this but I decided to take a different posture on Earth Day, especially because I wanted to write about what the DNR will be doing to the geese. I notice more and more parks and riverfront venues where I walk now has signs prohibiting feeding the wildlife; some of the signs are explicitly for geese and I guess that is because that geese, if you feed them once, count on them showing up for handouts all the time and they sometimes will come after you. I hope the day does not come when I can no longer feed the birds and squirrels at the Park. This morning I was in my glory … there were no geese nearby, so I saw two Red-bellied Woodpeckers, a Flicker, a Mourning Dove, about eight Blue Jays, two Chickadees and a pair of Cardinals. And a Downy Woodpecker as well … so that was enjoyable. But I can only feed them if there are no geese around as they will come and eat everything … bad for the “regulars” and I don’t want to spend money on the geese. The geese can be a pain sometimes, but this such a cruel way to handle removing them.
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I’m glad you mentioned the wind, Linda. I keep telling my husband that it seems like we are having a lot of days with high winds.
I’m not sure where you stand on hunting but a lot of the problem with over population of geese and deer is that people don’t hunt any more. My husband and I don’t hunt but I support those who hunt for their food. I would rather see that than reducing the population by mass murder.
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Ruth, I kept thinking that I never remembered the winds being like this before … yes, an occasional windy day, but not day after day of gusts of 25 – 30, even 35 mph or higher. So, I was happy to read two accounts about the high winds happening now. I have followed Paul Gross, formerly from WDIV/Click on Detroit, for years and even though he is now retired, he still posts about the weather, severe or not and he is interested in climate change. To have two meteorologists post about high winds and that this occurrence is in only five states validated what I had been thinking for months.
As for hunting, I know they have to cull the herds as there are too many deer and they are causing too many vehicle accidents and I heard at the beginning of firearms deer hunting season last year that after years of hunting and then sons following in their father’s footsteps to hunt as soon as they were old enough, less people are applying for hunting licenses. I suppose if they got sharpshooters and donated the venison to food banks it would be a worthwhile cause. I read one article that the geese will not be donated to food banks. I really don’t like this idea of mass murder – it is cruel. At Council Point Park for years they’ve sprayed with a grape seed extract and the solution numbs the mouth near the bill when the grass is eaten by the geese, so they don’t come back to graze. I know this was one of the solutions mentioned and they can’t move the geese as they will return.
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Farmers are complaining about high deer populations as well because they damage a lot of crops. They can get nuisance license to hunt year-round, but they say they don’t have time to hunt.
I was wondering if the geese would be used for food. Perhaps that would be a reason to separate the young from their parents. Younger birds would be better meat.
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I have a high school friend who lives in New York on the fringe of a wooded area. Whatever she plants is demolished by the deer who pass through her backyard, drink from her birdbath and tip the birdfeeder over to eat birdseed. And then they lay on the grass in the shade of her trees on a hot day to cool off. Yes, nervy! I didn’t know that farmers could get a nuisance license to hunt deer on their property or around their property. I would think if there is a shortage of hunters, they would get sharpshooters to cull the herd. I think they did that in Ann Arbor (or were going to?) I read an article that said the geese would not be used as food and apparently the method of killing them was not a factor in that decision.
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People forget that they feed wildlife daily! All that garbage we throw out goes to the dump where it feeds thousands of birds each day.
Not to mention bird feeders which is a billion dollar industry!
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I know Wayne – I fed the birds for years and feed them now at the Park and I believe it is a billion dollar industry. We are having more and more “wildlife” creeping into the neighborhoods because we are taking away their habitats … they have nowhere to go. I don’t condone the coyotes crossing the Creek into the Park because they are hungry, but they likely would have stayed away had their habitats not been destroyed. I’ve lived here for 59 years and only recently has there been deer, raccoons, possums, groundhogs and coyotes in the neighborhood. It was rabbits that used to be the problem, now we don’t have rabbits, likely because we have Cooper’s Hawks, not just at the Park but in the neighborhood.
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the balance of food available is always changing. If the food gets tight, the predator will move on.
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I hope we don’t have another brutal Winter like that again Wayne. I look forward to seeing if there are any nursing squirrel Mamas. If there are enough squirrels around of each gender, hopefully we’ll have two litters this year. I saw the first goslings for 2025, but only two goslings and were with their parents. A very small family and my immediate thought was “does this have anything to do with less places to build nests now?
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I’m sure Nature will figure it out,It’s the humans I worry about.
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Same here Wayne … I have serious worries.
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I wish you were the president! I had no idea about them killing the geese. I wonder if the animals they kill at the animal shelters hang on that long too? Excellent post Linda!
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Well thank you Diane! I am glad you liked the post. I don’t know about how long the animals last at the animal shelter, but knowing birds from years of having them as pets, I have to think that it’s painful for them due to their mouth structure – look how much they open their mouths to eat or to honk. When we had canaries, it was a different type of bird than parakeets in that you could not have anything Teflon near them. No ironing or cooking and my mom would leave the oven door down to cool off – nope, could not do that anymore either as the noxious fumes would harm his throat.
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Oh wow, I never knew that!
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We didn’t know about the Teflon poisoning either until we bought a book on canaries when Marge brought him back to us. I think you know we took care of Sugar while Marge was visiting her mom in Arizona. She bought Sugar and a few days later, the nursing home called and said her mom had taken a bad turn and Marge should come visit her. She was there for almost three weeks. So we took care of Sugar, babied him, he sang and sang and when Marge picked him up to take him home, he never sang and sat in the corner and moped. Well he was in the kitchen with my mom and at Marge’s she was still feeling well and worked almost every day and went out with friends, so she brought him back. 🙂 We learned no ironing, cooking with Teflon or leaving the oven door open – bad for canaries.
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A wonderful post for Earth Day, Linda, I absolutely adore the gosling with the yellow flower! I’m quite disappointed to hear about the handling of your geese. So sad…
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Thank you Donna! That was one of my favorite pictures of 2023. There was a huge patch of dandelions at the Park and the geese and their goslings were feasting on them. 🙂 I am disappointed in such cruel handling of the geese and their goslings. There are better solutions. Council Point Park sprayed their grass with grape seed extract for years every Summer and maybe still do this. It numbs the area around the mouth/bill of the geese if they graze, so they move along to somewhere else. It is a temporary numbing, just long enough for the geese to remember and not return to graze. The product is used not only commercially, but homeowners with lakefront property purchase it and use it as well. It is humane at least. Right now here in Michigan, some suburbs are overrun with deer and at a council meeting right now they are deciding whether to use bow-and-arrows or sharpshooters to cull the herd. I’ve been listening to the debate – sterilization was also mentioned. Very sad.
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Hey wait a minute a grand plan to reduce Michigan’s Canada Geese population? Seems like the geese might have first dibs on the land, they were there before the construction. Just saying.
We get congratulations on our utility bill too. I don’t know that we’re intentionally saving the planet as much as saving money. 🤔
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I agree with you 100% Ally – what is wrong with sharing the parks and lakefront properties with the geese and, as you say, they were here first. I had hoped they would come up with a better solution, but it does not appear so. Tonight I have been listening to a meeting in the northern suburbs where they are trying to decide how to eliminate the excess deer, i.e. do we sterilize them, hire a sharpshooter to kill them or let marksmen come with bow-and-arrow? All are cruel ideas. There are nature lovers present at the meeting as well.
I thought Michigan had something special going on with their kudos to their energy customers. I guess not, but doing it to save money is good. I remember going from incandescent bulbs to CFL to save money and energy, but then CFL bulbs caused fires and were unsafe to handle so along so now it is lightbulbs that are so bright that sometimes you could do surgery beneath them. 🙂
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Talk about a tale of man versus animal. We have deer but no one has talked about murdering them. Not too many geese around here.
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It is terrible and unsettling to me. The meeting I referenced was somewhat contentious with one person saying “‘culling’ is just a polite word for ‘killing’ so you might as well just use the word ‘culling’.” In the end they decided they will have both, bow-and-arrow hunts and sharpshooters to pare down the deer population. I’m glad I don’t live in a rural area and have to hear/see any of this.
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We can probably count on weird weather from now on. Maybe the earth will settle on a new equilibrium that’s a bit more predictable.
I hate such indiscriminate killing of wildlife because they’re “a bother” to humans. I expect we’re much more of “a bother” to wildlife!!
That last photo of the gosling with the dandelion is absolutely precious!
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These wild weather swings are killin’ me Eilene. We have severe weather again tomorrow, as does a good part of the Midwest, all due to a 30-degree drop in temps from a cold front. This wacky weather is no doubt here to say – I agree with you.
I also agree about the cruel killing of wildlife because they are a bother to humans and yes, we are in their way, but they were here first and why can’t we share the space companionably? Tonight I have been listening to arguments how the deer herd will be culled in one northern suburb: all ideas are on the table i.e. sterilization, a sharpshooter, or even bow-and-arrow hunting. All are a sad end to such a beautiful animal.
That sweet gosling is one of my favorite pics. The whole family was grazing in a patch of dandelions and this little one broke away with one in its mouth.
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It is heartbreaking what we are doing to our environment. I used to be more optimistic that we could turn things around or at least stop the destruction but not so much anymore. As citizens we can do our part but I’m afraid that it will take governmental and corporate commitment that doesn’t exist.
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Yes, it breaks my heart too Janis. And sadly, here in my state, not only are we going to mass exterminate geese in such a cruel manner, but we are also doing the same to the deer population. It’s quite controversial, just like the geese. There was a meeting last night and it was decided that bow-and-arrow hunting and sharpshooters will be brought in to cull the herds. I am glad I am not around to hear or see any of these events. Sadly, all this is destroying our environment as we have known it all these years and it will reach a point that it is irreversible.
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great post to connect with earth day – and oh my goodness – how sad to hear about the gassing. Ugh
I also love the Thoreau quote and glad you went with it – but “the winds of changes” had a nice sound to it as well. It reminded me of the Scorpions song “Winds of Change” – which I just heard last week — do you know it?
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Thank you Yvette – I know it is not my usually cheery-walking-in-nature post, but these are big changes that are really more noticeable every year. On the heels of losing almost every squirrel at Council Point Park over the Winter (supposedly to predators like eagles and coyotes though I didn’t witness it), to learn the fate of these geese hurts my already-hardened heart. No, I have never heard that song, but thank you for sending me the link … I like it and the song would have worked well to add to the post. I do like Thoreau’s quotes, especially this one.
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It’s distressing what’s happening to the wildlife! I’m especially upset about the gassing of geese! Yes, their droppings are an issue, but here, they usually round them up and re-locate them. We are also experiencing a lot of high wind days, but your area seems to be harder hit. A sad state of affairs. 😫
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There are a lot of people trying to save the geese but to no avail and it is distressing to see the measures they are taking. It is very cruel. Do your geese return after being relocated as they the geese are smart enough to fly back to where they were removed from. Yesterday we had 50 mph winds and some areas, not near me, had 60 mph winds and a roof was blown off a building. We got to 86F (30C) and it was the hottest April 29th since they started recording temps in 1899. Today, the same time is 25 degrees colder. This morning I was back in a Winter jacket.
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Yes, the geese eventually do return, but then they disappear again. It seems to go in cycles. Wow – 86F? That’s amazing! We had 70F last Thursday, then the temperature fell right down again. It keeps changing and I won’t put away the winter coats just yet. We’re supposed to get around 60F today. P.S. If you like cute dog pics, I have a bunch on my blog for Terri’s most recent challenge.
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We have four or five days of rain in a row coming up – the weather is not nice and yesterday we had an all day rainy, stormy day. The weather is just crazy. Today it was supposed to rain off/on according to all the weather sites I look at and it never rained, so I went for a walk, went grocery shopping and did a few errands. I am behind here. I wasn’t online much on Thursday due to the storms and I started my online art classes Monday and have only got part of my watercolor flowers assignment done so far. I had to write my post for Sunday today and do more art this weekend to keep up and not fall behind as the next session is Monday with new assignments.
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Online art classes sound like fun. Enjoy! 🙂
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Thank you Debbie. I am enjoying the class so far and three weeks more to go. Something good to do on a rainy weekend like we are having.
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Oh wow all I can think about is those ooor geese☹️
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Yes, me too Susan. It is a terrible thing and sometimes I wish I did not know about it. There are people spearheading campaigns to stop it, but it appears it will go on as scheduled in June and July.
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Such a beautiful post to celebrate Earth Day. You must have seen so much magic in nature since you began your travels in 2011. Thank you for allowing us to share in your amazing experiences ❤️❤️
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Thank you for your nice comment Zena. It has been a wonderful trip for me getting out in nature and getting to know more about the wildlife I only read about on other’s blogs before. I was out today for many hours walking and getting still more photos to share here and hope that everyone delights in looking at them as much as I do gathering them.
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