Common Nature

I'd kind of like to see the face off!

That's odd -- I link all my photos from there and there doesn't seem to have been an issue in the past 😕

It was a first for us too!

🙂

It's an eye catcher!

I was particularly amused by the gosling in the top right of the second pic. Chubby gosling butt!

Ooh, that must have been a sight! The mallards here seem relatively indifferent to their broods. It's not that they abandon them or anything, in fact they grown babies can be seen hanging around with their moms. But they don't seem to be any more protective than they usually are for themselves.

Haha, that kind of sums it up 😄

When we first moved here there were a LOT of geese around our lake. In fact they became a problem, particularly around nesting and "growing" season when they became more aggressive. The apartment complex got a dog and it began patrolling the lake every few days. The geese became scarce and there was no nesting. At the time there was a no pets policy for all tenants.

A year after Covid, the policy was changed, and now there are many people walking dogs around the lake. This geese pair are the only ones who seem to have nested here, but I've been curious how those encounters have gone. The dogs must all be leashed but I have observed a variety of temperaments.