{"id":46,"date":"2008-05-12T20:37:50","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T03:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2008-11-09T12:36:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T19:36:14","slug":"goose-flew-the-coop-by-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Mother Goose Had Flown The Coop By Mothers Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\"facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"google_plus\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>

About a week ago I stopped at a big box electronic store in Denve<\/strong>r to check out an electronic device. After I did my electric thing and walked out to the parking lot I got that particular sinking feeling one gets when one sees an animal in distress. There was a goose (at first I thought it was a duck – I wasn’t that close) squatting on the blacktop parking lot surface – in the middle of the parking lot! I watched it for a few minutes; it wasn’t getting up. I know enough to know that a creature like that doesn’t lay down on a blacktop parking lot surface for an extended period unless there’s a darn good reason. <\/p>\n

I was running late. I had to leave, so I left and drove to my destination, making a mental note to call someone, and hoping that the bird could and would soon fly away. When I arrived at my destination, I told my hosts that I needed to use their phone book, and call someone about the stranded fowl. I called the local animal shelter, however, since it was a Sunday <\/strong>evening I was getting only electric voices on the answering machine. I finally called the non-emergency police number and was transfered to animal control. I then told the dispatcher of the honker’s possible troubles and asked the woman for advice since I didn’t know exactly what to do. She said she’d pass the information on to the animal control people and they would take care of it.<\/p>\n

Later in the evening we decided we would check on our feathered friend before heading home. We gathered a box and a couple of beach towels to “handle” the quacker if we had to pick it up and drive it to a shelter or animal hospital.
\nAs we approached the parking lot, we saw it’s long-necked silhouette and we all sunk a bit as we realized that a healthy bird would have flown away by now. It must be injured! Whoa, it was now standing up. There was some relief; standing is an improvement over being completely down, so maybe the creature will survive after all. We were feeling better but still concerned; we wern’t really sure about what to do. This duck or goose whatever it was was walking around a Circuit City <\/strong>parking lot at 9:00 on a Sunday<\/strong> night.<\/p>\n

Then the dark clouds parted and the moon shone through when someone in our party spoke with a CC <\/strong>employee who knew the whole scoop. Turns out that the “goose” was a gander and his “lady” was nesting with her eggs or hatchlings by some bushes on a “curbed planter island” (raised area with soil and greenery)<\/a> “smack-dab” in the middle of the parking lot. Turns out they must have been hatchlings<\/a>, read on…
\nHe said that the male was walking around (fifty feet from the female) as a decoy to distract people from focusing in on Mom<\/strong> & the little ones. We found the female on the “planter island” which, incidently, was surrounded by a three quarters of a dozen bright orange parking cones. The employee said that the birds were Federally protected though we never found out who placed the parking cones, nor did we see the goslings – maybe they were under mom’s wing when we saw her on the planter.<\/p>\n

Talk about a nice ending, we were all – to say the very least – elated…We went out into the night to celebrate.<\/p>\n

I returned yesterday – Mothers Day<\/strong> – to shoot some video clips. Alas, the geese and the parking cones were gone; only a few tufts of down remain in the bushes. *An employee told me that the goslings & parents flew the coop. Major kudos to the people of Circuit City<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

From photos, I’m guessing that these puppies were <\/strong>Canadian Geese<\/strong>…<\/a><\/p>\n

*They must have been squatting for, at least, a couple of months. My understanding is that goslings can’t fly untill they’re about eight weeks old.<\/p>\n

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