Canadian Geese-are they freindly and has anybody else had them hanging around near where they live?

1664kronenbourg

1664kronenbourg

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Yes, I know this sounds a bit strange but recently I've been seeing Canadian geese close to where I live (between a park with a pond and the Deansgate area). I've had the surround me as I was walking along the pavement and they were alright when I gave them something to eat but has anybody else seen them hanging around apart from ponds, rivers and canals?
 
They often hang around those places, as for friendly in my limited experience usually they're not bad as long as (like most animals) you don't crowd them too much and if they start to look/get agitated you leave them alone.
 
Yeah, they are migratory birds.
See them all the time on the canal on my bike.

They can get quite agressive in nesting season, but they generaly just hiss at you, and flap thier wings as a warning.

If you don't react to them and dont't bother them, and carry on your way, they won't attack you, lol!

Just leave them be, and carry on.
 
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No. They are not friendly.

You can feed them and then they will still give you grief for existing near them even after a month.

As above mentioned, just ignore them.
 
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mattyfez said:
Yeah, they are migratory birds.
See them all the time on the canal on my bike.

They can get quite agressive in nesting season, but they generaly just hiss at you, and flap thier wings as a warning.

If you don't react to them and dont't bother them, and carry on your way, they won't attack you, lol!

Just leave them be, and carry on.
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I'm talking about seeing them on a pavement and in a field. I don't know whether its the same flock or not buit I've seen them a few times and one of them has even come up to me. It wasn't agressive and neither were the rest of it's gang.
Hey, just picture it, you've got one of those small dogs with big gobs (Yorkies, Jack Russell's or chiuahuas) behind a fence and a flock of geese walks past, the said dog starts yapping at them and one of the geese starts hissing and the dog goes running in doors but just imagine if it was a cat..
Anyway, where I live is between a park with a pond and the Deansgate Docks but I've started calling them The Squadron becuase they always fly in V-formation.
 
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It's a bird ffs what's it's going to do, nip you? I've had geese attack me before and it's a minor annoyance at worst.
 
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1664kronenbourg said:
Never had a budgie have you?
The geese weren't being agressive or bothering anybody else and I wasn't bothering them. they were just curious.
It's the swans you want to worry about.
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I have actually, budgies are actually more dangerous due to a sharp beak and claws which can cause ocular damage. Swans and geese are just an annoyance.
 
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They taste muddy, damage crops and overgraze grassland, and are a bloody nuisance. There's a question over whether they are spreading avian flu.

Whilst here's been some succes with "geese herding dogs" trained to frighten them off long term stop overs on farmland, shooting them remains the cheapest option.

Gas powered cannons work to scare them and other nuisance birds away, but then local people claim the noise is dreadful, some farmers have tried using trained birds of prey to frighten them off, but it's a short term remedy.

It is a shame as they are quite a nice looking bird, but they do a LOT of damage.
 
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