Duck Duck Goose

[Motorman]

What do you do when a large flock of Canadian Geese fly through your circle? I went for the hard deck and flew right under them, what a rush.

MM

[Howard Rush]

I think you gotta fly under them.  Those things are oblivious to traffic.  We used to fly by a pond.  One guy would watch for geese while the other flew. Ducks are brighter and will do evasive maneuvers.  I encountered a flight of ducks during a square eight yesterday. Airplane and ducks survived.

[Tom_Fluker]

I encountered a flight of ducks during a square eight yesterday. Airplane and ducks survived.

If you are playing with ducks, you will appreciate this one from the past:

M R Ducks
M R Not Ducks
O S A R Ducks
C M Wangs
L I B, M R Ducks.

[Robert Zambelli]

I really have to be careful on my runway.
Those &(#%@&% Canadian geese are everywhere.
I've seen as many as seventy five right past the regular touchdown point - quite scary for both landing and take-off.

Seems like a few have died from lead poisoning but they keep coming back.

Bob Z.

[john e. holliday]

While attending a telephone school in Lisle ILL., I would go fly at a ball diamond behind the living quarters.   As soon as the engine started the geese would all move off the field.  As soo as I landed they would resume the eating or what ever they were doing.

[Dan McEntee]

    If they won't get out oof the way of a jet airplainer, what makes one think they will got out of the way of a toy airplane? I have seen barn swallows and pigeons bring and and destroy large stunters. I would hate to be on the handle of one hitting a goose in flight!
   Type at you later,
   Dan McEntee

[Phil Krankowski]

They are trying an experiment, but expect it will only help in the spring.  The perimeter fence gaps have a chain and a lower rope that is going to not allow the goose to walk through.  With flightless babies the geese should stay off the field.  Since the nature preserve has a lake bordering the field there is no hope of having a goose proof system.

On my own pond I lace up some long landscaping spikes with heavy fishing line and put them in tight so it is just taller than the grass around the edge that slopes in.  They can't see the line, nor can they tangle in the line, and it makes them leave in short order.  I typically have to do this a week or two in the spring. 

Phil

[John Park]

In my neck of the woods, somebody must be shooting at them - we've got huge skeins that go over every morning and evening, but they never fly lower than about 120 feet.  No problem with mid-air collisions, therefore, and anyway they honk so loudly you can hear them long before they get to you, even over the noise of any silenced engine I've got.  (Talking of shooting - has anyone tried roast Canada goose?  Any good?)

[john e. holliday]

Great eating when fixed right.   But, it been ages since I've had a wild goose to eat.

[Fredvon4]

One and only ONE Canadian Goose got me in the most trouble EVER in my adult life....

I am from the PAC North West genetically (born at Aberdeen Proving Grounds Maryland)...about as far east as possible from my Grandparents and family, ranging from Eugene Oregon to Marysville WA

As a young adult in the Army at Fort Lewis (Olympia/Tacoma) my uncles took me Goose hunting near Willipa bay...slightly north of Long Beach WA

Typical public hunting area with several dozen hunters, hundreds of DECOYS, retriever dogs, blinds, boats, etc...

After wave and wave of Geese approached and the typical hunters acting like coast artillery... 12 Gage, 20 Gage, 10 Gage barrage after barrage of anti air artillery with ZERO shoot downs---- but tons of lead and steel shot in the air...

I was cold, wet, and miserable so I left the "blind" to go smoke near the truck...then climb in and get heat going to get the damp chill out of my young bones...

After about a half hour of getting dry, I stepped out of the truck and saw a new flight of 30+ Geese moving close... in the truck was a Ted Williams Winchester 94 style 22 cal rifle with a Tasco 4X scope...I grabbed it...sighted a goose, lead it a little, and let loose ONE 22 bullet it's way....sucker got hit and spiraled into the bay....

HOWEVER a WA State Game Warden was also keeping warm and watched me do this... I got a very stiff fine, lost the rifle, and nearly cost my uncle his truck

I hate Canadian Geese....took my E-3/E-4 butt years to pay off the fine