Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for April 07, 2017

Take a gander at those saucy geese! Can you get down with them?

Before establishing each step as you are walking by the pond at the park, be sure to increase your awareness of what the geese leaves behind on the ground..

They thrive on baked goods.

Look at the size of that Honey Bun, would you!

What’s good for the goose is bad propaganda.Is that the North American Bin Chicken?

https://youtu.be/2PzbU0bGm6o – Why People Eat Birds

They are Canadian all right, they just come down to poop on America.

I can’t tell if that’s Princess Lea’s buns, or a bad imitation of ET, the extraterrestrial.

Quite frankly my dear Watson, they are simply practicing a very popularized sport. Wouldn’t you say?

The Regular Show had an entire thing about geese taking over a pond.

They had to team up with the ducks to get rid of them.

Swans work, though. Swans can chase off the geese.

I know a place that was using coyote decoys, and moving them every couple of days, to keep geese away from their pond.

Those geese look like they’re eyeing that pastry hungrily, but rest easy, they’re just looking for a patch of grass they can overpopulate.

…it seems Terry is practicing her art by continuing to challenge herself and us. Of course this will mean she is going to loose those that come here for the status quo. But listen to me Go comics overlord…this is the exact comic that-while seemingly getting low returns- that helps keep this site relevant and comics in general from going the way of b/w Tvs….viva the frog!…

They’re looking at it wrong. They should be reporting that a twenty year study showed Canada Goose levels were finally rebounding after dropping below 10% of normal.

We have destroyed their habitat, so they are moving into ours.

The Canada poops-a-lot-Goose (Branta canadensis) is the bane of any open green field in its migration path. They can live as long as 24 years… seems longer somehow.

For Canadians, these geese have a very bad attitude and can be extremely aggressive, noisy, and all-round crappy, ‘Snow Birds’ !

Yeah, well, your Kansas may have it bad. But I have a whole flock of the filthy and noisy beasts roosting in the high school athletic field across the street from me. Nasty honkers! Do not feed the overgrown pigeons!

And there is your Franzbrötchen …

I wonder what goosed up the population so much?

Why are they Canada geese wintering in Kansas, when they could be Kansan geese summering in Canada? Shouldn’t we put America first? I heard that somewhere…

There is a large business campus with several acres of lawns near my home. For the last several years they’ve ‘hired’ someone with large dogs to walk them, off leash, about sunrise every morning from spring through fall. This has significantly reduced their problems.

Legal Status in Oklahoma

Canada geese are protected by federal and state laws. The Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16USC 703-711) protects Canada geese, their nest and eggs. Federal and state laws prohibit capturing or killing Canada geese outside of legal hunting seasons without a permit. Non-lethal control activities such as harassment with pyrotechnics or other sound making devices, chasing with dogs, visual deterrents and use of approved chemical repellents are all allowed year around as long as there is no direct contact with geese and that do not result in harm to geese, goslings, eggs, or nest. Non-lethal control activities such as these do not require state or federal permits.Do not feed or allow feeding of geese or other waterfowl on your property

Allow hunting of geese on your property if possible during open goose seasons

Remove domestic waterfowl from the area

Modify landscape to deter goose use of site

Exclusion and barriers (fencing or other physical barriers)

Trained dogs

Noisemakers and pyrotechnics

Visual deterrents (scarecrows, balloons, Mylar scare tape)

Chemical repellents

Lasers