I went with my girlfriend to feed some old bread to the geese that live down my street yesterday, and figured I should bring my camera. I got some pretty good pictures, but let me just say this: geese are vicious.
This guy kept attacking other geese and hissing at us for more bread. He had a metal ring on his ankle:
I wonder if that has something to do with it? Perhaps the park rangers marked which ones are really aggressive? Maybe that one is the alpha male? Do geese even have alpha males? I have no idea.
All I know is that teenage goslings are very cute:
You can see the rest of the pictures at my gallery.
Yeah, you gotta be careful with geese. We get flocks of ’em through here all the time, and they’re a nuisance. They crap on the sidewalks, too. And maybe the banded one was angry because he was banded?
On the other hand, sometimes they’re funny. We had one hanging around here a few days back I started calling “dopegoose.” He would swim around alone in the pond, honking non-stop, at around 7:30 in the morning. We thought maybe he’d lost his flock. Later on, we saw him standing on the peak of another apartment building, doing the same thing.