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The Canada Goose Family Blessing-or curse? For most of the last 22 years our pond has been a combined summer camp and training ground to at least 1 or 2 families of Canada geese - one year we had 5 families. We name the families according to the number of babies in each family - the 2-baby family, the 5-baby family, etc. They move in and take over from around the beginning of May until early August. Actually, we look forward to their arrival each spring. The first ones show up around mid March and begin their courtship and mating when the ice on the pond starts to thaw. The pair(s) then di...
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