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The pair of Geese that left…
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The pair of Geese that left…
About 2 years ago, I still remember seeing a pair of geese walking around between the apartment buildings taking their 6 goslings, eating the grasses that were there. In the mountains nearby where I reside, there are many species of animals that live there. There are few groups of coyotes that are along as well, and I have seen them during our early morning walk.
During the night time when the coyotes come out to eat the goslings, the mother goose would honk so loudly in such a way, that the sleeping residents would wake up – and anyone that were able to move would grab a club or a bat to loudly shout at the coyote to chase them away. The Korean residents being centered decided to watch after the goslings during the night time vigil to watch after the chicks until they were old enough to fly. Sadly however, the geese and their chicks had left the apartment perimeter through a hole in the fence. While passing by a very large house, the coyote’s attacked and all 6 chicks were lost. Those beloved chicks by the residents were lost, and turned into nothing but bits of feathers.
Last year, there were no geese that had hatched a nest. It was all quite. This year however, in the very late spring a geese couple had made a nest. Either from their natural habit to protect their species or not, they had made a nest on the hallway roof that connected from the apartment to the offices, and soon lay and egg. Another geese had also did lay an egg and made a nest on the gallery roof but there was a tree shade to protect them from the heat.
But during this year, they had unfortunately nested in an exposed area. So from the morning till night, the mother goose would just stay in the hot, open roof to protect the one egg. Since it was so busy with the egg, the mother bird had no time to come down, nor did it have time to take water so the mother goose would open its mouth and gasp. The body had become skinny, and the color of its feathers was fading out. Even the male goose would just stay in the grass and stare at the sky…? I knew the male one was slowly also losing the will to live. When I went to a park around late May, other geese’s chicks were moderately grown and were eating grass peacefully.
But, in our apartment, the geese were just starting to hatch its eggs… I think there was a problem with its egg. I think the rooftop was too hot, and the egg had boiled and become cooked.
Despite passing mid-June, the mother goose refuses to eat to protect the egg, believing it would hatch someday. One of the employees in the apartment had decided to clean up the egg. After this incident, the geese couple had sadly moved out and God only knows where they had gone?
I had learned a valuable lesson from this mother goose that had patiently waited for the egg to hatch, despite it being a dead egg.
To wait for the arrival of the next generation, I had learned a lot from the mother /father goose its patience and the hope it had with that bird. But, to lay an egg, the right conditions and place to make a nest, to see if the bird knew if its egg was dead or not, to just keep going trying to hatch only to hurt its body was the one thing that was not very smart to do so.
(July 5th 2016)
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The pair of Geese that left…
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