Comments on: Weekend Birdery: Reviled Geese http://organon.jimhufford.com/2010/07/weekend-birdery-reviled-geese/ An instrument of Jim Hufford Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:02:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Jim Hufford http://organon.jimhufford.com/2010/07/weekend-birdery-reviled-geese/comment-page-1/#comment-1146 Jim Hufford Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:53:52 +0000 http://organon.jimhufford.com/?p=2713#comment-1146 I think the geese had been in decline for a long time in the south, but they were re-introduced by restoration programs (supported by hunters) which worked really well. My understanding is that after re-introduced, the geese found that they really liked all the new golf courses, big lawns, etc., and populations have exploded. I've seen huge blackbird flocks like you describe...but not in Atlanta. I think you can see them out in "the country." But geese do not eat them. Their diet is limited to pure human flesh and jet fuel. I think the geese had been in decline for a long time in the south, but they were re-introduced by restoration programs (supported by hunters) which worked really well. My understanding is that after re-introduced, the geese found that they really liked all the new golf courses, big lawns, etc., and populations have exploded.

I’ve seen huge blackbird flocks like you describe…but not in Atlanta. I think you can see them out in “the country.” But geese do not eat them. Their diet is limited to pure human flesh and jet fuel.

]]> By: Len http://organon.jimhufford.com/2010/07/weekend-birdery-reviled-geese/comment-page-1/#comment-1144 Len Sun, 01 Aug 2010 12:30:45 +0000 http://organon.jimhufford.com/?p=2713#comment-1144 Back in the mid 80's I worked for the USGS in Albany GA. A guy who worked with me liked to hunt geese. He had recently moved from Wyoming to GA. Wyoming was the land of Geese o'Plenty. He had many cool stories of the Wyoming outdoors, but he really lamented the lack of GA geese. In GA, and the east coast generally, there were so few geese that hunting them was illegal. What happened? How did we go from too few to too many? Also in Albany GA, when I was a kid there was a yearly blackbird migration. In the fall the birds would fly through in numbers so large they blocked out the sun. I have not heard of this migration of blackbirds recently. Did the geese eat them? Back in the mid 80′s I worked for the USGS in Albany GA. A guy who worked with me liked to hunt geese. He had recently moved from Wyoming to GA. Wyoming was the land of Geese o’Plenty. He had many cool stories of the Wyoming outdoors, but he really lamented the lack of GA geese. In GA, and the east coast generally, there were so few geese that hunting them was illegal. What happened? How did we go from too few to too many?

Also in Albany GA, when I was a kid there was a yearly blackbird migration. In the fall the birds would fly through in numbers so large they blocked out the sun. I have not heard of this migration of blackbirds recently. Did the geese eat them?

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