Last week, my husband and I went for a brief lunchtime hike at a nearby park. We brought lunch with us, thinking we could find a shady spot next to the stream.
Not so much for shade - the trees* haven't quite leafed in - but we did find an empty picnic table.
As soon as we set our stuff down on the table, a large goose (Canadian goose, to be specific) that has been snoozing nearby started to waddle over. It lowered it's head, opened it's mouth so that we could see the pink tongue, and started hissing.
I live by paradigm that if you don't bother wildlife - they won't bother you. Not this time. We looked around to see if we were accidentally disturbing the goose's mate (it's egg-sitting time). Nope.
The thing just kept getting closer and closer, hissing non-stop.
It wouldn't leave us alone until we shared some carrots. Yeah, yeah, I know, no feeding wildlife and all that. But seriously, that goose had a racket thing going - if anyone wanted to use the table, they had to pay!
Goose Mafia.
*Speaking of trees - there were so many trees down on the trail! Ash, mostly. We have an ash tree growing right next to our house and we keep watching for signs of disease. Emerald ash borer has pretty much decimated ash trees in this area. We keep treating ours with insecticide - we'll see how it does.
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