First things first. 1) "PJ" is not a gander, she's a goose. I am not certain that "junior" applies here. She's fully healed from the mystery injury from a few weeks ago. 2) The goose nest that Sally Muscovy took over has been removed, due to excessive gosling death. (It gets a bit stinky.) Two months of setting is long enough; she's looking a bit ragged. If anybody tells you animals don't have feelings, they are wrong. Sally was sad. She made chirping noises that I hadn't heard before. If you want to be scientific about it, I observed her pacing, rummaging through the (now empty) nesting material, and chirping at a tone lower than I've ever heard. It looked like "sad" to me.
For those of you who have broadband, here are two movies. You'll have to turn your head sideways for the first -- sorry about that.
The geese seem to love to nibble on things -- hands, clothes, whatever is available. (movie) They have no hands to grab things with, so it only makes sense that their mouths are their primary learning tool.
There are two hatches this year. The first batch of seven are about fully grown, somewhere between 10-15 lbs. There are six more, still growing. You can tell by the voice: the younger are still making chirping noises.
An airplane is flying overhead in the second clip. Birds are always wary of flying objects in the sky -- looks like predators to them. (movie) They regroup at the end for safety.
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