Part of my job involves looking over the checks that my employer writes. A short while ago I came across a mysterious vendor. When I researched what this vendor did, I was shocked and amused.
It turns out that there is a company out there that will chase geese off of your property. When I found out about it, I thought it was very odd. However, the very next day, I was driving to work and was stopped at an off-ramp by a family of geese crossing in front of my car. Since then, my eyes have been opened.
There are more geese than you would ever believe hanging out all over central Maryland. These geese represent a threat to many of the finely manicured entrances to the generically designed office parks of the area. As many of them are chased off of private property, they find homes in public spaces. Centennial park is definitely home to many of Maryland’s displaced geese. Here we see them enjoying a fall day with one of the human visitors to their home.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Trig // Nov 6, 2009 at 11:48 AM
At this point, the goose chasing job looks excellent.
2 bryanintimonium // Nov 6, 2009 at 2:18 PM
honk.
3 Gump // Nov 6, 2009 at 3:31 PM
This is a good counterpoint to the oft held belief that Geese are jerks.
Maybe they’re jerks for a reason.
4 shelly // Nov 9, 2009 at 8:59 AM
My absolute favorite thing about geese is that they will make a home wherever they land. So if you chase geese out of your office park and they land on a golf course, that will be their new home.
Yay geese.
5 roc // Nov 17, 2009 at 1:16 PM
The Chicago Botanic Garden employs a group called ‘Wild Goose Chase’ …they use dogs and radio controlled boats to annoy the geese enough to get them to hang out elsewhere..
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