I have no idea, because it turns out that the geese in the photograph on the left never did get to the other side - they just decided to hang out in the middle of the street. I finally had to drive around them, after taking a few snapshots, of course. These particular geese were in Fort Collins, Colorado, and lately I have noticed them all over the place up there, even in the parking lot of the local King Soopers Grocery store. Geese are very much like Californians - once one of them finds an agreeable spot, thousands more soon follow.
Geese have always been a problem here in Denver. It got so bad a year ago last summer that the park district culled a thousand of them at Washington Park, and gave the meat to local food banks. The park district claimed that the droppings from these geese was a health hazard. News of the killings stirred up an outcry from Denver residents, but to no avail. This past summer the park district repeated the culling, but were much quieter about it. For a while afterwards, I saw very few geese in Wash Park, but this fall and winter, have noticed that they have returned in large numbers. They are even walking across the street from the park, hanging out on people's lawns, as seen in the photograph on the right. If it was me, I would be out in the front yard with a broom, shooing them all back across the street, or at least to the lawn next door. Actually, in thinking about it, it is a shame that a fat Christmas goose has gone out of style in the English speaking world - somebody could have made a fortune. Perhaps even me.
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