We're seeing lots of geese scattered around in flocks of 50 to 75 birds. We had really good reproduction this spring and banded 604 geese, compared to 262 in 2004.
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Related If you judge by what we see, there are plenty of birds in this state. The populations have been stro... BRIAN WATSON We concluded that these geese populations were growing out of control. BRUCE BATT Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese. MATTHEW ARNOLD What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
[Lat., Idem Accio quod Titio jus esto.] WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When they him spy,
As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,
Or russet-pated choughs, many i... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shall I, like Curtius, desperate in my zeal,
O'er head and ears plunge for the common weal?
Or... ALEXANDER POPE I dare not hope to please a Cinna's ear.
Or sing what Varus might vouchsafe to hear;
Harsh are... JAMES BEATTIE One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the ... ALDO LEOPOLD We have sent teams of microbiologists to the places, where flocks of birds were found dead. H.K. PRADHAN There is no such thing as a starving goose. Geese can fly hundreds of miles. No one should be feedin... DAVID FELD These snow geese came into this field and started feeding in it last night. We kind of thought they ... LYNN ZUBECK Getting up too early is a vice habitual in horned owls, stars, geese, and freight trains. Some hunte... ALDO LEOPOLD A flock of geese can cause the problem, but this seems to be recurring. It's not a common problem. W... ARLENE MURRAY My father's originally from Buxton (N.C.), and he loved those geese flying overhead. His favorite we... CINDY MILLER They have asked us to look out for three main species of migratory birds, namely the Bar-headed Gees... DS NARVE If he likes geese, he wouldn't do it. DAVID FELD I'm scared of the geese. When I was five, my mom took me down there to feed those horrible beasts an... LEAH RAE MILLER When a fox preaches, take care of your geese. PROVERB When the fox preaches, look to your geese GERMAN PROVERB It's not the geese, either. BRUCE FULLER All our geese are swans. ROBERT BURTON A giant motherboard of geese, unruffled by the state police, swarmed in unison, in ha... KRISTEN HENDERSON When the Foxe preacheth, beware geese. GEORGE HERBERT We do have a problem with geese, but we take care of it the best we can. JIM MCCORMICK What birds are out there seem to be scattered because there's a lot of feed. They're not concentrate... DOUG BOWMAN The impact that these geese are having is substantial not just on our lakes and ponds but on our ba... BRUCE BARBER The impact that these geese are having is substantial not just on our lakes and ponds but on our bal... BRUCE BARBER The impact that these geese are having is substantial — not just on our lakes and ponds but on our... BRUCE BARBER The impact that these geese are having is substantial not just on our lakes and ponds but on our ... BRUCE BARBER The geese are fed, but you have to pluck them DUTCH PROVERB there certainly are more geese out there. BRENDA HILL Calligraphy of geese against the sky- the moon seals it. YOSA BUSON Geese are pretty smart creatures. They have a tendency to congregate in areas they know are safe. JULIE OAKES Instead of making a 50-50 pass in transition, we want it to be a 75-25 opportunity. STAN HEATH Then the geese replaced themselves with six pigs and vanished. DIANA WYNNE JONES Here is a sermon for you, Reverend: Everything not dead dies. Just like those little fellows scootin... ALLAN DARE PEARCE They would set their course toward it, seeing it grow bigger silently and imperceptibly, a motionles... T.H. WHITE If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese. GEORGE HERBERT We had a good run out of all three of those guys. Eric especially has been running better. He's runn... GREG MEISTER To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat
Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishi... GEORGE HERBERT They're just common birds. They're found literally everywhere, it doesn't matter where you go. Rock ... BRIAN SHEMA The goose that gets the geese, gets the gander FRANK CHUMBLEY I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I a... NAJWA ZEBIAN Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'. SHANNON HALE The impact that these geese are having is substantial  not just on... BRUCE BARBER I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... RICHARD YATES Certainly a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce a... POPE BENEDICT XVI In common with other bookmakers, the group's results in the period were adversely affected by sporti... CHARLES SCOTT ...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselv... WASHINGTON IRVING In most cases, geese aren't terribly aggressive. They are most aggressive when they are defending th... ROY DOMAZLICKY For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese. JIM CRACE The numbers we counted in the fall rut supported a 75 percent mortality rate. We still have around 5... GARY BRUNDIGE PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and im... AMBROSE BIERCE Oh, man. In between dinners and going to school and just being around, I'd say at least 50 to 75 [qu... BRODIE CROYLE My body is sky and in my soul flocks of angels are flying, wings of joys, spring burdens. MARIANA FULGER That means young birds (from the summer of 2004) were probably never born. The birds that tried to p... DAVE GROSSHUESCH We had 75 per cent of the play, created lots of chances but not had a shot at goal. The problem has ... DAVID TUTTLE You must step forward, Arutha. You will never be the man for whom you were named, and you will never... RAYMOND E. FEIST Oh, listen. Listen!' A sound like a big crowd a good way off, excited and shouting, getting closer. ... WALLACE STEGNER There are people who bring garbage bags full of bread to the lake and just dump it, ... This is part... BRUCE BARBER Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase -- that's what wild geese are for. ANONYMOUS It is the first time in China that artificially-bred bar-headed geese have been released into the wi... DING FENG In 2004 we went and observed student parking lots and half the cars were cars the institute does not... RUSS RADER [The region where the Turkish outbreak occurred also serves as a waypoint for migratory birds. Autho... ZENO I don't care when people honk at me, but when geese do, I get out of the way! ANIMALS You souls of geese,
That bear the shapes of men, how have you run
From slaves that apes would ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook,... BERNICE FITZ-GIBBON He must be a chaser of wild geese, as well as of wild ducks. He must be prepared to make a public sp... ROBERT E SHERWOOD To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force-fed enormous amounts of grain and fat, which causes ... KATE WINSLET I think the early bullpen injuries really threw us out of sync, ... We had some issues in the starti... GARY MATTHEWS Poultry gross sales climbed 17 percent over year-earlier levels due in large part to increased value... LARRY BURT We were hit with this flood a year ago as a result of Hurricane Ivan and compared to what those folk... DON MURRAY Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life belo... TEJU COLE We must have run over two or three geese. One of their feathers was in my foot. It was a delayed rea... JOHN VELAZQUEZ Birds are everywhere in our literature, a part, it seems, of our collective poetic imagination. If w... LYNN THOMSON In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us... BOB DIAMOND What we were trying to do is make a really positive album with lots of different elements from diffe... BEN ROMANS Şi, vorbind mai general, oricare ţi-ar fi linia în viaţă, dacă constaţi că alţii nu-ţi pre... BERTRAND RUSSELL, ÎN CăUTAREA FERICIRII I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and... ANNE HATHAWAY You will know when the crop is germinating when you see the geese in the field because they love the... GERHARD VERDOORN We are seeing empty spaces in lots that, in the past, we didn't really have empty spaces in. DOUG HOLMES I love the water. Everything about it. Smelling the humidity in the air, seeing the mist rise in the... LORI FOSTER ...my heart is a desolate field over which geese vee, the sky turns and the days lie fallow... JOHN GEDDES The geese and the seagulls make such a mess all over the beach that it's a health hazard, DONALD MILLER I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic. ANNA CHANCELLOR More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2... ELTON GALLEGLY We came back around. We really had lots of chances. Maybe we could have had more than five. But we d... RICK NASH All it takes is a flock of infected geese or ducks landing near a chicken farm, and because they are... YOSSI LESHEM In 2004, there was not a good recovery because of the low spring population, the summer being extrem... CHIP TAYLOR The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what... ROSE F. KENNEDY It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led ... VAN WYCK BROOKS I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite. SHANE L. KOYCZAN Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very... CHARLAINE HARRIS There aren't many (scattered lots) under $150,000,just a few here and there. SHAWN GOEPFERT Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He is being compared to Eric Steinbach. In 35 years, I've never had a kid who was recruited so much.... ED BRUCKER How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it... ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS We really had to look around. They were all down in the basement. He wasn't one to toot his own horn... BRIAN GRAY [Israel estimates that there are 50 to 75 dealerships, including some of the largest in the state, t... BOB ISRAEL
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