Subject: [Tweeters] ODD Canada Goose Behavior.
Date: Mar 28 15:25:13 2006
From: Al Wagar - alwagar at verizon.net


Hi Rolan,

Yeah! I too was astonished by such behavior. But I?ve seen geese dive
and come up chasing other geese. The divers seemed to be young geese, and
along with diving, they were somersaulting and kicking their feet in the
air. I thought it might be ?adolescent behavior.? A year later, I again saw
geese somersaulting. But this time it was associated with a lot of wing
flapping and perhaps was some sort of courtship display.

Both observations were at the big pond at the Montlake Fill, and I took
video on both occasions.

Al Wagar
Shoreline

On 3/27/06 3:31 PM, "Rolan Nelson" <rnbuffle at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Greetings All,
>
>
>
> I'm sure that I'm still a LONG way from having seen everything, but here's one
> I can scratch off the list:
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> At lunchtime today at the local pond I saw a pair of Canada Geese bathing and
> preening. Then to my shock, they both dove out of sight! They were under for
> almost 5 seconds. At this point I sat down to watch. A few minutes later,
> one of them did it again, and on several occasions they would dunk their
> heads, do a forward somersault onto their backs, and splash around belly up
> for a few moments. The bathing went on for over 20 minutes.
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> My question is: Is this diving and back flipping a common behavior that I just
> haven't caught before, or do we have a couple of weird geese here?
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> -Rolan
>
>
> Rolan Nelson
> Fircrest, WA
> rnbuffle at yahoo.com
>
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