Saturday in the park with geese

[selenak]

What's the English word for "child of wild goose" - "goosling"? Anyway, there are currently a lot of them in the Munich city park, aka The Englischer Garten, and they're adorable. Their parents aren't bad, either. Hence, gratitious pic spam.





Always with their parents, of course.








But they do make some excursions.







And learn swimming:




Meanwhile, another bunch stays on land:















Until they're pushed into the water:





At one point, a loose dog went too close to a family, and this resulted in some very mad geese, hissing like you wouldn't believe:



And telling their kids to go into the water:





I mean, that's just not on, dog!





The gooslings think so too:

Comments

[likeadeuce]

These are wonderful pictures, thank you for sharing.

When I lived in Newport News, Virginia, there was a park nearby that backed up to the mouth of the James River and a lot of Canada geese that migrated from the north would nest there and raise their babies. So we'd run across large populations of the adolescent geese (when they're tall and lean but don't have their flight feathers in yet) and watch them play what I swear looked like an organized football game with whatever bread people would put out for them. I wish I'd taken some pictures because it was quite something.

[selenak]

I can imagine! Or rather: you'd have to clarify whether they were playing American football or our European orginal which is known as soccer overseas? :)

[likeadeuce]

A particular goose version since they alternated between kicking and carrying it. It was interesting because they appeared to be playing w/the food as though it were a ball, rather than just trying to eat it...