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My mom's neighbors found this baby goose in their yard, with no adult geese around. They didn't want to leave it as they were afraid it would get run over. So they took it to the lake, but there were no geese there. My mom called me to come help... we put it into a bucket and walked around looking for any adult geese with younglings who might be missing one, or willing to adopt it.
We finally found 2 geese with no younglings a house down from Qiao's. They were skittish and headed off towards the lake as we approached. I set the baby goose down by the dry edge of the lake bed behind Qiao's house, for them to see it. It started following me back, so I quickly walked away (feeling irrationally guilty, like I was abandoning the poor little thing). One of the adult geese had lifted its head up high and was staring towards there. My mom and I went inside the house and watched from the kitchen, so that the adult geese wouldn't be afraid to come forward. I felt anxious, not knowing if the adult geese would be friendly to the young one, or if they might attack it, or if they had really even seen it, or if the little one had kept walking away into the brush, getting further lost.
From the kitchen, we couldn't see the little one at all. But we could see the adults here and there between the trees and bushes.
The one adult goose walked closer to where I'd left the baby. We could see its head popping up and down and it moving around some, but not much else*. After a long time, we finally saw the little one again, walking near the adult. They headed for the water and went in.
That felt like a success to us. I hope the little one is ok now.
*At one point, a small black cat walked along our fence on the lake side, coming from the side where the geese were. That worried me. But it kept on walking towards the other direction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm26ux0tHtM
We finally found 2 geese with no younglings a house down from Qiao's. They were skittish and headed off towards the lake as we approached. I set the baby goose down by the dry edge of the lake bed behind Qiao's house, for them to see it. It started following me back, so I quickly walked away (feeling irrationally guilty, like I was abandoning the poor little thing). One of the adult geese had lifted its head up high and was staring towards there. My mom and I went inside the house and watched from the kitchen, so that the adult geese wouldn't be afraid to come forward. I felt anxious, not knowing if the adult geese would be friendly to the young one, or if they might attack it, or if they had really even seen it, or if the little one had kept walking away into the brush, getting further lost.
From the kitchen, we couldn't see the little one at all. But we could see the adults here and there between the trees and bushes.
The one adult goose walked closer to where I'd left the baby. We could see its head popping up and down and it moving around some, but not much else*. After a long time, we finally saw the little one again, walking near the adult. They headed for the water and went in.
That felt like a success to us. I hope the little one is ok now.
*At one point, a small black cat walked along our fence on the lake side, coming from the side where the geese were. That worried me. But it kept on walking towards the other direction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm26ux0tHtM
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Date: 2019-04-14 04:07 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2019-04-14 07:02 pm (UTC)From:There's also a larger group of adults with no little ones out there by the "lake" (it's more of a stream right now due to the sinkhole/dam problem). When they get too close, the other 2 adults chase them off, which is the same behavior as the geese near my work when they have young ones.
I'm surprised though, how far away from the little one the 2 adults wander. At work, the little ones I see are usually right there by the parents, always staying close. Maybe this little one is still exhausted from yesterday... or maybe it (or the parents) doesn't pay good attention to begin with, which might be how it got separated in the first place.
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Date: 2019-04-15 02:35 am (UTC)From: