[Vision2020] Geese at Darby road.

[g crabtree]

And to think that just yesterday afternoon we had a sad story of near epic
proportions.
It's a testament to the hardiness of nature the way these noble creatures
battled back
from the crumbling precipice of extinction.

g


On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 4:22 PM Ron Force <ronforce at gmail.com> wrote:

> The playfields will soon be growing new green grass. More goose food!
>
> Ron Force
> Moscow Idaho USA
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 1:09 PM g crabtree <direoutcome at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Oh Sam, I have such happy news! I was feeling rather blue about the
>> demise of Rogers
>> goose preserve and took a walk out to the construction site thinking I
>> would find chaos.
>> Imagine my surprise when upon my arrival my eyes beheld a Christmas
>> miracle. Geese!
>> Many hundreds of glorious geese! Amazingly enough, not a hundred yards to
>> the east
>> was an identical patch of land that suited out Canadian guests in the
>> manner to which
>> they had become accustomed. I suppose that I could be wrong but it seemed
>> as though
>> the hunkering honkers could scarce tell the difference. What a glorious
>> day!
>>
>> g
>>
>> P.S. An additional wonderment is that the construction site appeared to
>> be properly
>> surrounded by run-off barriers and did not seem to be adding in any way
>> to the creeks
>> payload. I am sure that Roger's mournful elegy is to be thanked for
>> bringing about
>> all these wondrous turns of fortune and thank him I do. From the bottom
>> of my despicable
>> heart and without excuse.
>>
>> g
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 1:28 PM Sam Scripter <moscowsam at charter.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> A sad story, indeed, Roger. Surely, I visualize from your description.
>>>
>>> I wonder where they found rest from their journey?
>>>
>>> Sam S
>>>
>>>
>>> Via InoMail on Moto Android
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> November 30, 2018 11:18:07 AM HST, "rhayes at frontier.com" <
>>> rhayes at frontier.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> This is not a happy story. I was walking the dog at Mt View when several
>>> hundred migrating geese flew in from the north. They were low so I could
>>> hear the whistling of their wings as they passed. For generations, or as
>>> long as I have been here (1/2 a century), they land every late fall in the
>>> field just east of the park. It's kind of a semi-wet land where they glean
>>> and hunker down for a spell and rest. Well, they circled the area a couple
>>> of times looking down on earth movers, back hoes, and dump trucks ripping
>>> up the ground, then the leaders turned south, the rest following.
>>> I have always enjoyed watching them gather in that field calling down
>>> others to join them as new flocks pass. I usually don't anthropomorphize,
>>> but I think they might have been sad. For sure I was for them. This would
>>> have been a wonderful Trail family legacy to bequeath that land to Moscow
>>> Parks. Gone now. And the creek is just flowing mud from the run-off.
>>>
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