Mom goose update... She's still sitting on her nest in the tree, giving the stink-eye to anyone (or anything) who comes within a quarter mile or so. None of my neighbors have ever seen or heard of a Canadian goose nesting in a tree, but we've heard from several people second-hand that it's actually quite a common phenomenon. Tim D.'s daughter is a wildlife biologist who volunteers at the bird preserve on the northeast corner of the Great Salt Lake, and she told Tim that they see several such nests every year over there. So it's just new to us, not especially unusual. But still fun!
We're expecting the hatching to happen in the last few days of April or the first few days of May. We're going to try to see what happens when the chicks leave the nest, but we'll be lucky as heck to actually catch that event...
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