Meet the latest edition to my goose family. Just a few days old but absolutely enormous for a gosling. There were 3 eggs in the nest on Thursday evening when I last checked. Only one gosling has made it. I fear 2 were taken through natural predation. I don't know if this chick is so massive after a few days because of some natural thing or if he's just a freakin big chick. The mother ("Gentle") had 5 chicks last year, tiny little things. Bought them to show them off to me straight off the bat. Both Gentle and chick are extremely nervous atm, she even shies from me which she's never done before, chicks or not. This strengthens my belief that she's been bereaved. Anyway, here he is....meet....

http://members.lycos.co.uk/charliefr...on/GOSLING.jpg
.........PHEONIX

So far Goose wise I've made friends with loads, proper wild some of them too.
Up to now I've had (pairs) -

Gentle & JBN

JCB & AXI

Lonely & Bully

Lonely & Chesty
(Bully went missing, maybe hurt, and Lonely paired with Chesty. 2 months later Bully returned and Lonely left Chesty to return to Bully. My apprentice and I actually witnessed the arrival of Bully and the whole Goosey love triangle. It was quite sad).

Scruff

Tickler

Talker

and a host of others that I forget for the moment.

They're fantastic trusting creatures and each with its own very specific personality, I love these birds.

http://members.lycos.co.uk/charliefromlondon/GOOSE6.jpg
AXI (front) and JCB fly in for breakfast when I whistle them, I loved these two birds, they've moved on now sadly.


Anyway, hope you liked the pics and I hope you like little Pheonix (ack, he lives on a river, that awful but unintended pun/thought just entered my head).

Remember.......THE GOOSE IS LOOSE.

:D

What lovely geese! The chick is HUGE but looks like he's quite soft and downy, so still very young! Thanks for sharing, Charlie!

Awwwwwwwww, ain't he cute.

I did enjoy the pics. Thanks. [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

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Better loose than cooked I suppose [img]smile.gif[/img]

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Bloomin heck Charlie - do you reckon an ostrich might have got to the nest and laid an egg in there, cuckoo stylee?

It's flippin enormous mate. I mean baby birds grow quick, but that thing is huge! I reckon theres a chance he ate his siblings if he was feeling a bit peckish when he hatched (just kidding).

Who ate all the pies?

Blimey. **** a duck and all that.

That is a monster, to be sure! Great stuff!

I think it's precious! :D
It looks so big yet so clumsy and soft and fluffy... too cute!
Great pic Charlie, thanks for posting it!!

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awwwwwow so cute [img]smile.gif[/img] i found out the hard way about geese though....do not pick on them they bite :D

beautiful, nice stuff charlie.

He is a biggun ain't he. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Look how fat his little legs are compared to his mum.....he's a mutant....a Supagoose. ;) Pleased you like him.

http://members.lycos.co.uk/charliefr...n/GOSLING1.jpg
Only a few days old but total confidence in the water.

Beware....There's a SupaGoose on the loose. ;)