The wrong side is the right side to me!
The story of my life.
BTW, since you enjoy
giving folks the bird our fine feathered friends, the local brouhaha in Rehoboth might be of interest: a local lake is being befouled (no pun intended) by Canadian Geese feces. Well, the City Council's solution - shoot the damn birds - has met with some uproar!
The reportage in the local press is a bit questionable. They report that adult geese eat four pounds of food and create two pounds of fecal matter daily. They also report that the average gander lays 3-12 eggs per year.
My first question is, where does the other two pounds go? If we assume that a goose poops 2 pounds and pees 1.5 pounds per day, that leaves .5 pound left over. So in one year the goose gains 180+ lbs???
My second question deals with ganders laying eggs - now even us city boys know a gander is a guy, and the gals lay the eggs! I am aware that sexing a goose is difficult and frankly disgusting (see
University of Nebraka article:
it says "Then insert your index finger into..." - I'll let you read it!
Anyway some alternatives have been offered (courtesy of an organization called GeesePeace):
Hire GeeseChasers LLC who will (for $5000-$50,000 a year) provide you with specially trained boarder (sic) collie who will mimic an Artic fox and chase the geese away. This procedure is aiding if the community practices goose-egg addling (painting the eggs with oil so they don't hatch). Now again, I'm just a city boy, but I hear tell that if a gander catches you fooling around the family nest you'll get a first hand experience of what a real "goosing" feels like.
Then there is a company called FlightControl that paints the grass with Anthraquinone, which makes the grass look funny to the geese and gives them indigestion if they eat it.
The most vociferous of the anti-goose killing crowd is the Chairperson of the local Historic Lewes Cat Society. Strange - cat people defending birds- hooda thunk!
der Brucer (who would rather read about goose control that about the regular Cambodian vs. Mexican gang wars from his last home town)