Life is good for the geese here in Denver - nice weather, plenty of food, and lots of parks, the same thing that has attracted all those damn Californians here over the years. And neither seem interested in leaving anytime soon. They (the geese) no longer seem to fly south for the winter or north in the spring. They just hang out by the various lakes and ponds around the city, such as the rather fat goose in the photograph on the left that I took in Washington Park the other day. Of course, it is not a perfect paradise. If the goose population gets too large, the city goes in and culls them, giving the meat to food banks. A few years ago the city culled more than 1,000 of these birds, and so if a stranger in a park district uniform begins to act suspicious and gets too close, I would advise those birds to take off and get the hell out of there. The same goes for all those Californians, too.
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