Saturday, Sept 7, 2024, 4-pm; air temp 80-degrees, lake water temp 70-degrees; it was a warm 80-degree late summer afternoon with brite sun and humid air and it felt like the summer heat was definitely back for a return encore.
Anyway, looking down from the Weirs Beach boardwalk just above the Weirs Beach public swimming area which is roped off with large floating orange swim line buoys, there were two groups of Canada goose floating in the swim area, inside the rope line. One had 20 Canada goose and the other had ten Canada goose, and there they were, just doing nothing but floating in two groups within the swim lines. There were a few different people in the water at the time, but no one shooed them away, and there was no one like a lifeguard or any city employee present to shoo them away so there they was, just relax'n inside the roped off, swim area.
Who knows but maybe they figured out that the many motor boats, nearby, do not enter the swim area which is roped off with big orange buoys? .....
It's been my experience that Canada goose will totally ignore me when I clap my hands together, very loud, in an effort to shoo them away while in the water, and you need to approach them in close proximity in the water, and physically chase them out of a swim area because they seem to be more comfy out on the water than when on the land close to the water. They appear to be defending their home water and do not get scared away, too easy, out on the water.
Like, whose water is this, the Canada goose maybe assume "I am a Canada goose and I belong here, you are a human, so just go the hell away!" It was like the Canada goose were taking over the Weirs Beach swim area, and nobody was out there, shooing them away. .....
...... yikes.
One skilled hunter with a shotgun, a small duck boat, and a bird dog could probably do a lot, all up and down Lake Winnipesaukee to drive the Canada goose away, back to Quebec, or somewhere away!
The only good goose, is one that is not here and pooping up the lake! ....... Something needs to be done about all these Canada goose, right here on Lake Winnipesaukee, and the sooner, the better!
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_goose ......
