Mother Goose

Mother Goose sitting on a nest.

McLeod & McLeod with Lola in the lead are still looking for the babies. Just saying "where's the babies!" sends them into a honking frenzy. I'm also sad but practical in the thought that some thing has got to be done. I don't know what. It is the only thing I have been thinking about. Because, Mama goose who had babies a few years ago, is sitting on 6 eggs. She has been there a little more then a week. She had 6 babies before but every morning I would come out and find one dead. That was the first time I started sleeping in my car, or rather staying up all night sitting in the car. On the one occasion I dozed I woke and found a wound on the side of the face of one the last remaining two. I brought it in the house. Cleaned the wound and kept him it there for about a week before it healed then sent him back out. As I remember, the geese were so happy to see their baby back but the fact they still had one, probably contributed to their contentment.  At that time we built a new area for the animals, making them closer to the house and easier to feed especially in the winter. I didn’t have another problem with predators until the coyote showed up this spring. Crap! The geese are honking. I gotta go.