Abundance
Not all mothers Goose are so fortunate... It was the beginning of April when I found a nesting site of Canada Goose in CSS park. There were at least two swan nests also. I was checking them every week since then hoping to get a photo op of tiny cygnets and goslings splashing near the shore. One day after a week of rain I came to that park and my heart sunk as I saw the nesting site submerged under water.
Moreover, I was told that the nests marked with red ribbons are part of an ongoing Canada Goose Population Control Program. They use one of the treatment methods such as egg oiling. The oil blocks the pores in the eggshell and starves the embryo of oxygen.
Eggs may be removed from nests once the clutch is complete, but there is a possibility that the bird will lay a second clutch. To avoid this, eggs may be treated to prevent hatching or replaced with dummy eggs so that the goose incubates the eggs as normal and then abandons the clutch when they fail to hatch.
So there is a very slim chance to see goslings in CSS park this season unless the birds will lay a second clutch during this summer. I went north of Toronto this weekend and found this happy Mother Goose in Caledon.
Abundance
Not all mothers Goose are so fortunate... It was the beginning of April when I found a nesting site of Canada Goose in CSS park. There were at least two swan nests also. I was checking them every week since then hoping to get a photo op of tiny cygnets and goslings splashing near the shore. One day after a week of rain I came to that park and my heart sunk as I saw the nesting site submerged under water.
Moreover, I was told that the nests marked with red ribbons are part of an ongoing Canada Goose Population Control Program. They use one of the treatment methods such as egg oiling. The oil blocks the pores in the eggshell and starves the embryo of oxygen.
Eggs may be removed from nests once the clutch is complete, but there is a possibility that the bird will lay a second clutch. To avoid this, eggs may be treated to prevent hatching or replaced with dummy eggs so that the goose incubates the eggs as normal and then abandons the clutch when they fail to hatch.
So there is a very slim chance to see goslings in CSS park this season unless the birds will lay a second clutch during this summer. I went north of Toronto this weekend and found this happy Mother Goose in Caledon.