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MG 7620
MG 7620
Gosling
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IMG 7970
IMG 7970
Two male geese fighting over a female at Lake Merritt
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IMG 7981
IMG 7981
The rules of combat appear to require grabbing your opponent's chest and pulling madly
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IMG 8006
IMG 8006
Flapping wings is also essential
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IMG 8017
IMG 8017
Victor to the vanquished: "Don't return"
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IMG 8018
IMG 8018
"Ever - she is mine…"
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MG 3434
MG 3434
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MG 3475
MG 3475
Someday, you will be as large as me...
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MG 2364
MG 2364
Canada Goose upon her nest
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MG 2686
MG 2686
Unfortunately, the nest is located on a weedy strip 20 feet wide between a parking lot and Lake Merritt
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MG 3138
MG 3138
Fluffing the nest before sitting down
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MG 3141
MG 3141
Gently...
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MG 3498
MG 3498
The nest
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MG 4218
MG 4218
Another Mother Goose with one of her nine goslings
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MG 4257
MG 4257
Her goslings discover the nest
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MG 4260
MG 4260
She checks it out...
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MG 4263
MG 4263
decides it is worthy, and sits down...
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MG 4276
MG 4276
Much to the consternation of the owner (near the lake)
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MG 4282
MG 4282
The invader and her mate defend their invasion
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MG 4286
MG 4286
While their chicks settle in
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MG 4298
MG 4298
Continuing the hostile takeover
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MG 4312
MG 4312
And protests
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MG 4317
MG 4317
Finally, the invader gets bored, leaves, and the owner inspects her eggs while her mate watches
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MG 4326
MG 4326
Satisfied, she takes a break
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MG 4341
MG 4341
An hour later, back on her nest
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MG 4347
MG 4347
Several days later: an empty nest
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MG 4434
MG 4434
The eggs have hatched
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MG 4375
MG 4375
The exhausted mother goose and her two new goslings
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MG 4246
MG 4246
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MG 4425
MG 4425
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MG 3910
MG 3910
The invader and her family
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IMG 4425
IMG 4425
Later, the invading family collected all of the goslings from all families into a giant nursery of nineteen chicks of various ages with four adults supervising
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MG 7182
MG 7182
Some of their chicks - note the different ages
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MG 7202
Another day care chick
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MG 7220
and two more
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MG 3111
MG 3111
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MG 7251
MG 7251
The day care, a few days later
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MG 3766
MG 3766
Very young ducklings - being led to water by a parent. The other parent is already in the water...
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MG 3767
MG 3767
Mother goose encouraging her goslings to leap into the Lake
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MG 3770
MG 3770
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MG 3771
MG 3771
They all made it
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MG 3999
MG 3999
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MG 5058
MG 5058
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MG 4251
MG 4251
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MG 5441
MG 5441
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MG 7768
MG 7768
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MG 5377
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