Overcast, calm, low
40s
It’s always a mystery to me as
to why waterfowl will prefer certain bodies of water over others. Sharon and I drove around to a half dozen
ponds between yesterday and today and only one, Goose Pond in Monroe, had a abundance
of waterfowl on it. While all the
others we surveyed had less than six birds on them, this one had at least 50
Canada geese, several swans, and the usual compliment of Mallards.
This pond is located in the
middle of the town of Monroe, surrounded by busy streets, walkways, and
stores. Many of the others
we checked on are in the forest, secluded from all the mayhem of a city
setting. All the ponds are similar
in depth and some of the earlier ponds we checked were smaller while others
considerably larger. So why Goose
Pond?
Obviously, given the name of
this body of water, the presence of these geese is the rule rather than the
exception. We’ve seen the same
phenomenon at other sites.
Rockland Lake, for example, is rife with ducks, geese, swans and even
occasional grebes. Goose Pond has
little vegetation surrounding it which is said to make the site more attractive
to the geese. But, Rockland Lake
is surrounded by forests. So the
question remains, what makes one pond or lake more attractive to waterfowl than
neighboring bodies of water.
Someone will just have to ask the geese, I suppose.
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