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Somebody laid an egg at WGBH

By adamg on Tue, 04/14/2015 - 12:13pm
Goose and eggs atop WGBH building in Brighton

Several eggs, actually. Jesse Haley gives us a bird's-eye view of the roof of WGBH in Brighton, newly furnished as a goose nursery.

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Comments

By anon on Tue, 04/14/2015 - 12:15pm.

Adorable!

By mg on Tue, 04/14/2015 - 1:33pm.

Now if it were a falcon nursery...

By Somebody Else. on Tue, 04/14/2015 - 8:45pm.

Goslings are tasty snack to hawk and falcon.

By Fenwickian on Tue, 04/14/2015 - 12:44pm.

Seriously? They built a nursery for these ruinous creatures?

They are a dreadful blight upon our city. What we need for them is recipes.

By anon on Tue, 04/14/2015 - 5:44pm.

If they're up there they're not shitting in the parks, no?

By The Beer Guy on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 8:58am.

It's not like they can fly down to the parks and shit everywhere.

By anon on Tue, 04/14/2015 - 5:48pm.

Reading Adam's post carefully, "newly furnished as a goose nursery" might not imply that WGBH literally set this up as a goose nursery, but that the goose decided to use WGBH's green/garden roof as such on her own, and the phrasing was a mild attempt at humor.

By adamg on Tue, 04/14/2015 - 5:51pm.

The area does look kind of prepared, but I don't know that 'GBH set it up as a goose nursery. For that matter, I never realized geese laid eggs anywhere but on the ground.

By anon on Tue, 04/14/2015 - 8:07pm.

That is "the ground" to the goose.

By Nancy on Tue, 04/14/2015 - 2:08pm.

Stay off of the WGBH roof until Mama Goose and the goslings are long gone.

By whyaduck on Tue, 04/14/2015 - 2:39pm.

n/t

By SwirlyGrrl on Tue, 04/14/2015 - 2:44pm.

Whyaduck?

By Brian Riccio on Tue, 04/14/2015 - 3:08pm.

Even though the hosts there are already full of shit, what's a few goose droppings?

By anon on Tue, 04/14/2015 - 5:44pm.

Including one I saw over the weekend nesting on the angled stone wall along the south edge of Broad Canal in Kendall Square. I suppose that works unless the eggs roll down into the canal and float away.

By Jesse on Tue, 04/14/2015 - 8:57pm.

Just an comfy spot under a goose flightpath, apparently:

"10 feet of low-maintenance, low-water greenery along the third-floor rooftop on the South side of our Brighton facility. The benefits of this “green roof”: reduced rainwater runoff (the plants soak up the rain) and insulation (plantings keep the building warmer in winter, cooler in summer)."

http://www.wgbh.org/about/going_green.cfm