{"id":17051,"date":"2020-07-24T11:31:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T15:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/?p=17051"},"modified":"2020-07-24T11:31:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T15:31:10","slug":"geese-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/2020\/07\/24\/geese-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Geese Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-content\/uploads\/love-the-lake1.gif\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-content\/uploads\/love-the-lake1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"108\"><\/a><strong>By Richard D. Gainar, CEBS &#8211; Lake Management Committee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, the summer is here, and I\u2019m soon expecting to see the grass start turning brown.&nbsp; But what I haven\u2019t seen much of yet is the familiar sight and sound of our Canada Geese flying overhead.&nbsp; There are a couple reasons for this.&nbsp; The goslings have grown out their first set of feathers and the adults have completed another molt and are not yet ready to fly.&nbsp; Early flights will be quite short for a couple months while the goslings develop the strength necessary for the long migratory trip.<\/p>\n<p>Geoffrey Westerfield, ODNR Assistant Wildlife Management Supervisor, reports that in Ohio, both statewide and in NE Ohio, he is seeing fewer geese complaints this year.&nbsp; \u201cOur nest permit and roundup permit numbers were also down.\u201d&nbsp; Geoff says \u201cI am sure that COVID is helping that by allowing folks to chase geese when they normally would be at work, but<br \/>\nI am also assuming that folks are figuring out the right tactic for their location to keep geese moving.&nbsp; Farm complaints are up a bit with good timing between crops going in the ground during goose molt season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I also feel that we\u2019ve be doing a good job here at Lake Roaming Rock to keep geese moving too.&nbsp; Goose management techniques for the next few months ask us to commence harassment as soon as geese can fly again.&nbsp; Again, 3-4 days of consistent harassment will get the geese to move on.<\/p>\n<p>Be Lake Responsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard D. Gainar, CEBS &#8211; Lake Management Committee Well, the summer is here, and I\u2019m soon expecting to see the grass start turning brown.&nbsp; But what I haven\u2019t seen much of yet is the familiar sight and sound of our Canada Geese flying overhead.&nbsp; There are a couple reasons for this.&nbsp; The goslings have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/2020\/07\/24\/geese-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Geese Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lake-management-articles","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}