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Goosenapper or opportunistic raccoon on the loose in the Fenway?
By adamg on Thu, 04/30/2015 - 6:41pm
Hillary spotted this poor mother goose in the Fenway today, along with a sign from an outraged person about how her eggs have been stolen and demanding justice for mother, now resorting to sitting on tennis balls and apples, apparently.
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I'm torn on this one
There's nothing sadder than a bereft mother, of any species. Yet, the baser part of me can't help thinking two things: 1) It's not like Canada Geese aren't breeding enough, for God's sake, and 2) Can passive-aggressive notes really be used to shame raccoons, foxes, and other egg-stealing creatures? Who knew?
Didn't know that 'coons, 'possums, rats or feral cats could read
OTOH, did see a video of a fox in Chernobyl make itself a Dagwood sandwich, so anything might be possible.
(Found a dead sparrow on a neighbor's sidewalk today. If it's not gone by tonight, am going to bury it; poor thing.)
I be someone stole them for
I be someone stole them for dinner =(
Yuck
Unless they were immediately out of the goose, fertilized eggs that have developed some are really not edible.
If it was a human perpetrator, which is possible, it probably had to do with population control or just meanassness. Given the nest location, I'd bet possum or raccoon involvement.
Never heard of balut?
Never heard of balut? (although it's duck, not goose.)
Balut
I guess there must be a Rule 34 of the Internet, but for Things People Eat:
Cannot...un-see
It burns!
Another Comintern Conspiracy Theory!
In addition to bankrupting capitalist economies and other mischievous deeds, the devilish Communists are now sending agents to steal eggs and destroy our bird populations!
Watch out for the Comintern! They come for your sunscreen...then they came for the wildlife...and when there was nothing left on the continent, they came for your homes and built nuke factories over them!
We Only Want To Save The Cute Ones
I hope some raccoon got so stuffed they could only go through dumpsters on Kilmarnock and not Queensbury Street today.
These geese are the most annoying Canadian things outpacing Bieber, P.K. Subban and Geddy Lee by furlongs.
I hope the note writer has never set out a mousetrap or swatted a mosquito. They have moms too you know.
You missed Gordan Lightfoot
.
And another
Pick on Ted Cruz all you want
But while your Bruins and Canucks are playing golf, his Flames are still in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Yup
My brother lives in Central Alberta. All Flames, all the time ;)
The Flames are now asking that people not bring their duck hunting guns to this playoff round's games. Freaking Texas with snow. Fun times!
So
The Cruzes left Calgary due to the snow.
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
By the way, the toddler is rooting for Anaheim. This is not going over well in our household. I think he just hates Johnny Gaudreau.
Huh?
I thought Ted Cruz was on record saying he didn't like flames?
Cuban Canadian American Cruz
I don't know about that but I do know he's on record disavowing his Canadian citizenship. For what practical reason, I do not know. Is being a secret Canadian a thing pols in DC must guard against?
Canada, that hell hole that regulated its banks well enough to avoid the most damaging impacts of the great recession.
As the big freighters go ...
It was bigger than most.
with a crew and good captain
with a crew and good captain well seasoned
But only for anything he did
post Dream Street Rose.
HOW DARE YOU
Geddy Lee is the god of all prog rock nerds...how dare you!
Excepting, of course...
that time that I had Lee and Alex Lifeson in a van after a show at the Worcester Centrum. As the throngs of bearded Rush fan started to rush the van as we left the backstage, Lee turned to Lifeson and said,
"Our fans...they love us and we can't fucking stand them."
Doesn't mean he's not a god
Worshipers owe their deities obeisance, not the other way around. Seriously, though, not to justify the assholery, but he's hardly the only rock star (or star, period) to express similar sentiments. Fame can be a double-edged sword, as you probably know better than most of us, DVD.
While we are at it.....Darwin
How about a few signs of OUTRAGE for the heartless opiate dealers in the Fenway Victory Gardens? Your taxpayer dollars at work as EMS and BFD vehicles respond to 911 overdoses and get stuck in the mud.
Geese feces pose a public health problem and the Park Dept. oils the eggs each Spring to control (somewhat) the invasive population of bread-fed birds. Death by heroin and benzodiazepines may rank slightly higher in the top ten things to get bent out of shape over.
Wandering thread
Don't you love how this thread about stolen eggs turned into a discussion of rockstar/fan relations?
Evil from the north
Canada geese stopped in for dinner and never left. Anyone remember "What about Bob" with Bill Murray? I say hooray for the goose egg nappers. They are doing what the animal control people can't; rid us of aggressive, giant turd laying imports.
My money's on those hoodlum Brookline turkeys
Fowl on fowl crime!
They are probably adopting
They are probably adopting them to build a naval force to control the Muddy and Charles rivers with an iron beak.
Contact the Environmental Police
To get an award?
I was at the Emerald Necklace this morning. The geese are ruining it. Population control via removing the eggs seems to be the most humane way to handle it. If the mom doesn't like it, go some place where there are no people.
Honestly, Olmsted would be shitting bricks if he saw the state of the park he designed, and it's not the fault of humans.
Or
Or shitting pinkie-long green bricks that anyone who walks through the Fens has to avoid.
Seriously, walking from the MFA to Park Drive is like a goose-shit obstacle course.
Everywhere.
I am an animal lover but boy, have a cone to despise these geese. Poop machines. The Fenway is bad but also the Esplanade, the Emerald Necklace, the Franklin Park golf course...ugh. Vile.
To quote Brookline's own Judge John Hodgman
"Geese are assholes". Anyhow, I get the feeling that the Environmental Police aren't going to care a bit if someone calls about this. It's not like Canada geese are endangered, plus officials from Fish & Wildlife regularly oil Canada goose eggs to control their out of control population.