By Staff
May 1st, 2018
BURLINGTON, ON
Perhaps it is the geography.
Maybe the people in the eastern part of the city are just once.
Affordable housing? The geese have made a home and are waiting for the goslings to arrive. It will be quite a show when they are born.
Whichever – there is now a pair of geese tending to the birth of some goslings outside the Fortinos off New Street.
An avid Gazette reader was in that part of town and sent us a note and a photograph of Mommy goose sitting on the nest while Daddy goose fends off any interlopers.
“They are almost at the front door of the Home Sense store
“A mama goose sitting on its nest and papa goose watching over and protecting her. Interesting watching him with keeping the seagulls away from the food that people left out for mama goose.
“I saw them a couple or so weeks ago on the top of the Fortinos, you could almost tell they were looking for a place to build a home.”
The trees are gone – and so are the geese.
The geese at St. Christopher’s United Church on Guelph Line were not as fortunate. They had the good fortune of living beside a small row of apples trees that provided them with plenty to eat.
When we eat – the waste has to get discharged somewhere and the good people at who owned the apartment next door agreed with the church that the poop could no longer get dropped on the church driveway – so the really nice apple trees were cut down and the geese found somewhere else to find their food.
