Catfish and otters and ducks, OH MY!

Catfish and otters and ducks, OH MY!

I promise I will not talk about my ducks and chickens, whose exploits and malfunctions I have burdened you with in many a column, except to say that my biggest disappointment with these critters is that my daffy ducks simply will not go into my pond, which is why I got them in the first place. But guess what? Geese will! Every year just after Christmas about 50 or 60 Canada Geese decide to winter (or summer) on my one acre pond.

Egg-addling shakedown keeps B.C.'s Canada goose population in check

Programs targeting introduced species threatening wetland health is reporting success

Annual Okanagan egg-addling begins to manage goose population

The program has been responsible for preventing thousands of invasive geese enter the Okanagan

Invasive Canada geese in decline on the Island thanks to estuary efforts

Guardians of our Salish Estuaries reports recent success through egg addling and estuary protection programs

In order to keep the nuisance caused by geese within limits, the municipality of Tilburg has called in the help of Trizin Hof. As a nest manager, he checks the nests of geese. In an animal-friendly manner, he checks whether there are goslings in the eggs. One egg per nest remains untreated, so that only one gosling hatches. This prevents a large number of geese being added in a short period of time. In the Dongevallei in the Reeshof, you will ma…