Posts Tagged ‘geese’

It will be slave in the gardens day today….momentarily and before the heat strikes.

So, just a picture, no more, of Alba, Mith and their baby.  In the woodruff being lovey to each other.

I spent hands-on time with the geese this morning.  Carried them up to the back yard, and then kept Alba, the female to gentle her a bit.  She had not been handled much as a gosling and still is less friendly than her mate, Mith.  He came up close to comfort her and allowed himself to be stroked.

Six inches of snow lies round about us, with a sparkling blue sky overhead this morning.  But our snowy goose, Alba, has made a nest in the golden straw and is sitting.  Her first ever egg was yesterday, cold and muddy when I found it.  Today, is obviously different!  So, snowstorms aside, it MUST be spring, right?

This week, our six month old Goslings (when do you call them geese?!) saw their first snow.  They seemed confused as to what all this chilly white stuff was.  They didnt’ like it that their little kiddie pond froze and they couldn’t paddle and float and duck their heads.

The picture is from the first snowfall over  a week ago.  It didn’t melt and has had three more snowfalls atop it since.  I am keeping the feather-heads mostly in their enclosure near the heat lamp, since night temps have been into the teens and it is very cold indeed.

Let’s try to get back to normal schedule of writing events, shall we?

This is Taz meeting the estimable Sparta kitty.  There should have been goslings in this photo; however, although the goslings are not afraid of Sparta, they ran in abject terror at the first scent of Taz.   Noe the bushed up tail of an excited ferret.