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The day after we found the little gosling, I saw that it was still with those 2 adult geese in the lake area behind Q's house. The next day, I saw 2 adult geese in that area, also in the afternoon, but no little one. That made me worry, as I had read that Canada geese are very habitual, hanging out at the same places at the same times each day. But the next couple of days, I didn't see any geese in that area at all. I keep thinking about that little one, worrying about what happened to it. Thinking things like: maybe it hatched late and/or couldn't keep up with it's original family and got left behind by them, and maybe then it also ended up being left behind by the new foster parents I thought we'd found for it... the poor little thing...
On Monday, I saw the first batch of goslings by the ponds near my work.
Today, I saw a goose nesting in a landscaped terrace area behind our building at work; an area which is only accessible from the ground after going up about 20 stairs. If the goose has babies up there, how will they get down all those stairs? They'd have to be brave enough to jump down them all, one at a time. Or they might be stuck up there, if no one helps them down. Later it occurred to me that even adult geese don't go up and down stairs. They'd have to fly up & down.
But apparently goslings can survive large jumps:
Geese nesting on a rooftop : "Generally newly hatched goslings can fall about 2 storeys without hurting themselves, because they are so small and fluffy."
Baby Steps? : "Waterfowl have occasionally been known to nest in high places. Fortunately the babies weigh almost nothing so when they jump they float more than fall to the ground. "
So depending on which way the parent goose leaves, maybe the goslings would jump right off the top of the wall by the nest, skipping all the stairs.
But after watching a few videos like the below, I thing that goslings would have no trouble going down a bunch of stairs, though going up them might be more difficult:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwaHVtr72X8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIQCfwE1dEs
On Monday, I saw the first batch of goslings by the ponds near my work.
Today, I saw a goose nesting in a landscaped terrace area behind our building at work; an area which is only accessible from the ground after going up about 20 stairs. If the goose has babies up there, how will they get down all those stairs? They'd have to be brave enough to jump down them all, one at a time. Or they might be stuck up there, if no one helps them down. Later it occurred to me that even adult geese don't go up and down stairs. They'd have to fly up & down.
But apparently goslings can survive large jumps:
Geese nesting on a rooftop : "Generally newly hatched goslings can fall about 2 storeys without hurting themselves, because they are so small and fluffy."
Baby Steps? : "Waterfowl have occasionally been known to nest in high places. Fortunately the babies weigh almost nothing so when they jump they float more than fall to the ground. "
So depending on which way the parent goose leaves, maybe the goslings would jump right off the top of the wall by the nest, skipping all the stairs.
But after watching a few videos like the below, I thing that goslings would have no trouble going down a bunch of stairs, though going up them might be more difficult:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwaHVtr72X8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIQCfwE1dEs