..OR, Peewee vanishes without trace
ONE of our geese is missing - PeeWee, the only surviving gosling from a batch of eggs laid by a Toulouse Goose in 2013, disappeared sometime after 10am and before noon today. There's no clues, no tell-tale feathers, nothing. Naturally everyone is distressed including his parents Jack & Vera and our old Swedish Kohn goose Bluebell who used to guard him in the first few weeks with a passion as though he were her own.
I doubt he has strayed since he never wandered off and was always kept under close watch by the three adult geese; as the sole survivor of 10 eggs laid by Vera he was in many ways over-protected. Another baffling aspect is that the adult geese don't appear to be as distressed as they were when a badger snatched nesting mother Queenie before scoffing all of her eggs earlier this year.
* The film above was shot last month and shows how closely the others guarded PeeWee making sure they were always positioned in front of him.
ONE of our geese is missing - PeeWee, the only surviving gosling from a batch of eggs laid by a Toulouse Goose in 2013, disappeared sometime after 10am and before noon today. There's no clues, no tell-tale feathers, nothing. Naturally everyone is distressed including his parents Jack & Vera and our old Swedish Kohn goose Bluebell who used to guard him in the first few weeks with a passion as though he were her own.
I doubt he has strayed since he never wandered off and was always kept under close watch by the three adult geese; as the sole survivor of 10 eggs laid by Vera he was in many ways over-protected. Another baffling aspect is that the adult geese don't appear to be as distressed as they were when a badger snatched nesting mother Queenie before scoffing all of her eggs earlier this year.
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