Pennsylvania Backwoods

Crazy Goose and Some Views From Gobblers Knob

Posted on 20. Mar, 2008 by Brian W in Outdoors, wildlife

I’m not sure what was with this goose today. I was in the house doing some cleaning and I heard it honking. Thinking it was a gaggle flying over, I looked out the window and there it was. The goose was alone and stayed around for close to an hour honking away.

I’m not sure what exactly was wrong with it. I know that if a goose is wounded or sick, that one from the gaggle will stay behind with the lame bird, but I didn’t see any other geese around with it. It ended up flying south, honking as it flew until I couldn’t hear it anymore.

Although the Canadian goose can be a nuisance animal this one was actually kind of nice to see. Seeing them lets us know that spring is finally back, even though you wouldn’t know it with today’s temperature.

On another note, I took some more pictures from up on gobblers knob, there is just such a nice view up there that I’m frequently taking pictures up on that hill. In fact the photo in the header of this blog is shot from up there.

On closing, there were 4 turkey out at the end of the corn field this evening. Two of the smaller ones were gobblers for sure, in fact one had about an 8 inch beard. The other beard I saw was pretty short, probably a jake from last year. The biggest bird never gave me an angle to see if there was a beard or not, but it sure had a wide tail as it pecked along looking for grubs.