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Published: 2010-02-24 06:36:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 608; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 9
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Canada Geese in a huge old Oak tree - they look so out of place!! Geese are supposed to be on the ground
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they really are! Β I've discovered a pair that nests on top of a metal shed - don't know if it is the same ones, but I've seen geese sitting on a nest there for 3 years now! Β Sure wonder how the little ones get down, and where they go from there (as far as I know there's no real water anywhere really close 
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That does sound like a mystery...but clearly they are faring if they have been doing it for 3 years...I guess they just find it safer to nest higher up. :dunno:
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up high safety makes sense to me!Β
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They may be Canadian Geese but I've never seen any of them act like this at home! How crazy!
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I'd never seen them anywhere more exciting than on top of a boat house 
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They're still hanging out in the tree! I think there is a nest down in the cavity - we've seen one hop down inside...
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Ah no worries, they're only attending a training lesson in rock climbing - a sport that has recently become rather fashionable among them.
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LOL - you're too funny!
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there are many strange things to be seen nowadays...
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LOL Thanks for all the recent faves!
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Wow, I didn't realize they were so nimble.
That one on top is doing quite a balancing act.
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LOL! So true! I saw them again today and the one on the bottom dropped into the hole behind it...I think they may have made a nest
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I'm still giggling 
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You are more than welcome! We need to do it more often 
Here's what says about eagles...."They are great scavangers and thieves. You should read Ben Franklin's opinions on the Eagle.
I intended to mention the idea of a food source but forgot it.
At my former station, I used to feed them each winter. It was common to have several dozen sitting around the house, day in, day out.
Unlike vultures which are really woodland birds comfortable with dense forest, Eagles require fairly open areas and they hate landing in vegetation more than 6 inches tall.
A carcass is worth staking out, maybe setting up a blind."
And that where he is they put washtubs up on poles for the Canada's to nest in
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OMG, I can just see us in Camo clothes!! Let's do it!!!
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The water is to sallow to keep the foxes and coyotes away
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Made us wonder what had spooked them up there or if they just wanted a chance to see more
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I dunno.. I've never seen them in trees
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says they see them in trees all the time as the water is too shallow to keep away the foxes and coyotes! Makes sense
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It does..I've just never seen it
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Now tell me true. Wouldn't you be up there too if you had wings?
BTW, Canadas will readily nest in raised structures. In some areas they put big ol' wash tubs on poles. They make secure locations, safe from nest raiders like Raccoons and snakes.
Great capture.
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Yeah, I would
I can see them up on flat roofs and in washtubs but their feet just don't bend right for trees
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