But seriously.....its a wonderful sight. So graceful for such big birds.
The Retirement Thread
- Thread starter Dirk
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As you will know Canada Geese are resident here all year.
Greylags as,I understand it have 2 sub species. With climate changes many thousands have found it possible to stay here though the vast majority leave.
Then there are geese that molt and therefore cannot fly.
I only know those bits as I recently googled it.......the full answer is (I found) quite complex.
Poacher
Gravitationally challenged member
- Location
- Nottingham
Mrs Poacher has been away at my SiL's since Tuesday. Yesterday, having prepared Melanzane alla parmigiana and baked a Pannetone in readiness for her return later today, I was at a loose end, having to stay home for an expected delivery. Way back in late January, I collected a decrepit J F Wilson for @midlife and started dismantling it for salvageable parts. After applying copious quantities of penetrating oil and brute force, I got the 5-speed block off one side of the Normandy flip-flop rear hub, but the fixed side was seized completely. Putting the lock ring in a vice and applying as much force at the rim as I dared (they do unscrew clockwise, don't they?), something gave.
Unfortunately it hadn't loosened but sheared off, leaving me with a useless, but quite free-turning broken hub.
It must be useful for something, though, surely? After musing several possibilities I decided a wind vane might be the best option. This is only a proof of concept, using a scrap piece of packing wood and a small piece of plastic left over from secondary double glazing several decades ago.
So far it's proved to be sensitive to wind direction and an effective scarer of Woodpigeons (and other birds, I'm sorry to say). If I bother to make a finished version, it will have a cyclist struggling against a perpetual headwind. Laser-cut metal commercial versions are available, but I might just put my fretwork skills to the test with some thin plywood.
Unfortunately it hadn't loosened but sheared off, leaving me with a useless, but quite free-turning broken hub.
It must be useful for something, though, surely? After musing several possibilities I decided a wind vane might be the best option. This is only a proof of concept, using a scrap piece of packing wood and a small piece of plastic left over from secondary double glazing several decades ago.
So far it's proved to be sensitive to wind direction and an effective scarer of Woodpigeons (and other birds, I'm sorry to say). If I bother to make a finished version, it will have a cyclist struggling against a perpetual headwind. Laser-cut metal commercial versions are available, but I might just put my fretwork skills to the test with some thin plywood.
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welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Fish and chips for us today. With scampi as well 
numbnuts
Squire
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
I've got mushroom soup
Flick of the Elbow
less than
- Location
- Midlothian Edinburgh
We get very few Canada geese in Scotland. Around here we get a small number of greylags over the summer. Further north, it came as a bit of a surprise to me a few years ago to see (wild) barnacle geese breeding in the grounds of the Highland Wildlife Park in Speyside. They are there every summer. Their usual breeding grounds are Greenland and Svalbard, where they get eaten by polar bears.
Shouldn't that be 'Honks' ?
How on earth does a polar bear catch a goose ??
With a shotgun?
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
Presumably the youngsters in the nests?
Not sure if my legs/feet are up to another walk or not. Suppose I should since it’s so nice, albeit windy.
Right.
Try and imagine you are a goose. You have just spent (our) summer in Greenland.
Its now September and getting very cold.
As you are a goose you can fly anywhere.
So.......
South of France?
South of Spain
Portugal?
Nah....... I'll go to the UK where it rains a lot
Try and imagine you are a goose. You have just spent (our) summer in Greenland.
Its now September and getting very cold.
As you are a goose you can fly anywhere.
So.......
South of France?
South of Spain
Portugal?
Nah....... I'll go to the UK where it rains a lot
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
I think they like cold conditions though do they not?Right.
Try and imagine you are a goose. You have just spent (our) summer in Greenland.
Its now September and getting very cold.
As you are a goose you can fly anywhere.
So.......
South of France?
South of Spain
Portugal?
Nah....... I'll go to the UK where it rains a lot
Plus they are mad
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
and in Scotland, it only happens once every 100 years.I keep my peely wally pins covered pretty much all year round. Has to be mega roasting before I would wear shorts.
To coincide with the Brigadoon village fete.and in Scotland, it only happens once every 100 years.
