Welcome to GEESE OFF!

Today we saw our first flying Canada goose since early June.   We cleared sixteen of them from a school baseball field in southern Westchester and four from the grounds of a seminary.

These geese and their young have been flightless during a one month period in the goose calendar known as the summer molt.  Starting in early June geese shed all their flight feathers.  It takes a full month for them to grow back.  During this time, sound goose control practice is to stop “walk-ins” invading our customers’ ponds or waterways and adjacent lawns.

The combination of lush lawns bordering water is an attractive proposition for land-bound Canada geese during the molt.  They provide food and protection.  The art of good goose control is to prevent them gaining a foot-hold on any property with similar characteristics.   The combined force of swimming dogs or handlers in kayaks in the water with trained Border collies on the land has to be brought to bear day and night.