[Vision2020] Geese at Darby road.

[Ron Force]

The playfields will soon be growing new green grass. More goose food!

Ron Force
Moscow Idaho USA


On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 1:09 PM g crabtree <direoutcome at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh Sam, I have such happy news! I was feeling rather blue about the demise
> of Rogers
> goose preserve and took a walk out to the construction site thinking I
> would find chaos.
> Imagine my surprise when upon my arrival my eyes beheld a Christmas
> miracle. Geese!
> Many hundreds of glorious geese! Amazingly enough, not a hundred yards to
> the east
> was an identical patch of land that suited out Canadian guests in the
> manner to which
> they had become accustomed. I suppose that I could be wrong but it seemed
> as though
> the hunkering honkers could scarce tell the difference. What a glorious
> day!
>
> g
>
> P.S. An additional wonderment is that the construction site appeared to be
> properly
> surrounded by run-off barriers and did not seem to be adding in any way to
> the creeks
> payload. I am sure that Roger's mournful elegy is to be thanked for
> bringing about
> all these wondrous turns of fortune and thank him I do. From the bottom of
> my despicable
> heart and without excuse.
>
> g
>
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 1:28 PM Sam Scripter <moscowsam at charter.net>
> wrote:
>
>> A sad story, indeed, Roger. Surely, I visualize from your description.
>>
>> I wonder where they found rest from their journey?
>>
>> Sam S
>>
>>
>> Via InoMail on Moto Android
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> November 30, 2018 11:18:07 AM HST, "rhayes at frontier.com" <
>> rhayes at frontier.com> wrote:
>>
>> This is not a happy story. I was walking the dog at Mt View when several
>> hundred migrating geese flew in from the north. They were low so I could
>> hear the whistling of their wings as they passed. For generations, or as
>> long as I have been here (1/2 a century), they land every late fall in the
>> field just east of the park. It's kind of a semi-wet land where they glean
>> and hunker down for a spell and rest. Well, they circled the area a couple
>> of times looking down on earth movers, back hoes, and dump trucks ripping
>> up the ground, then the leaders turned south, the rest following.
>> I have always enjoyed watching them gather in that field calling down
>> others to join them as new flocks pass. I usually don't anthropomorphize,
>> but I think they might have been sad. For sure I was for them. This would
>> have been a wonderful Trail family legacy to bequeath that land to Moscow
>> Parks. Gone now. And the creek is just flowing mud from the run-off.
>>
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