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   StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 11:01:18 JST StillIRise1963

   I've never had all of my ducks in a row. A few are always slightly off to the side, a couple are distant, on the horizon, but I can still see them, and there's always one that's just errant. The errant duck.

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     Adam F. Lawton (adam_cadmon1@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 11:01:14 JST Adam F. Lawton

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     @waitnwallflower @statmonkey @StillIRise1963 they should be trained and weaponized. Release them on Russian lakes.

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     Untitled Ukrainian Resistance Game

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     *Terrorists*

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     Adam F. Lawton (adam_cadmon1@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 11:01:16 JST Adam F. Lawton

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     @statmonkey @StillIRise1963 smh, I'm sorry you had to find out the hard way. Geese are assholes.

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     Statmonkey 🙊 (statmonkey@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 11:01:17 JST Statmonkey 🙊

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     @StillIRise1963 All this time I thought it was ducks in the road. Sorry ducks.

     Ducks are okay but stay away from geese, they are mean as shit.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2023 06:32:09 JST Paul Cantrell

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     This Ft. Collins kid can corroborate! They are nuuumerous at every water feature, and have become a kind of emblem of the city. They even are (or at least used to be) on the police cars, which is weird because the goose has become kind of an Anarchist / ACAB symbol….

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     @StillIRise1963 @grey_ghost @Adam_Cadmon1 @MPgh @geerue @statmonkey @CStamp @APBBlue
     It is. I was surprised when I saw the reaction. There’s a sort of love-hate relationship with wildlife here in the west. The Wild/Urban Interface, or wooie as it’s pronounced, is riddled with cognitive dissonance. Oh, those prairie dogs are so cute! Oh, those prairie dogs are carriers of Plague. (True.)

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     StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2023 06:32:11 JST StillIRise1963

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     @qurlyjoe That's kind of sad! @grey_ghost @Adam_Cadmon1 @MPgh @geerue @statmonkey @CStamp @APBBlue

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     @grey_ghost @Adam_Cadmon1 @MPgh @geerue @statmonkey @CStamp @APBBlue @StillIRise1963
     We’ve got tons of em here in Fort Collins. 50 years or so ago some local guy thought they were cute or something and imported a bunch. There are thousands now but fortunately a significant number of them go north for the summer. There’s a gang hanging out at a small pond near my house. Some are getting the bird flu that’s going around, and nobody’s sorry for them.

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     Most the areas they migrated to(and stayed) don't have natural predators for them. So they are over populating

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     @MPgh @geerue @grey_ghost @statmonkey @CStamp @APBBlue @StillIRise1963 are Canada Geese a vital part of the ecosystem? I mean, they can be back on the endangered species list pretty quick if not...

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     @geerue @grey_ghost @statmonkey @CStamp @APBBlue @StillIRise1963 @Adam_Cadmon1 Hard to belive they were once almost extinct. Like buffalo. Good thing buffalo can’t fly…

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     Jill (geerue@calckey.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2023 06:32:22 JST Jill

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     @grey_ghost@home.social @statmonkey@mastodon.world @CStamp@mastodon.social @MPgh@mastodon.world @APBBlue@zirk.us @StillIRise1963@mastodon.world @Adam_Cadmon1@mastodon.online
     
     Did you know that Canada Geese were once close to extinction?
     https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/05/rochester-canada-geese-management/629916/

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     @statmonkey @CStamp @MPgh @APBBlue @StillIRise1963 @Adam_Cadmon1
     Maryland and Pennsylvania too...😏

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     @grey_ghost @CStamp @MPgh @APBBlue @StillIRise1963 @Adam_Cadmon1
     ? Build that wall! Get the Carolinas to pay for it. 😆

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     @CStamp @MPgh @APBBlue @StillIRise1963 @Adam_Cadmon1 @statmonkey
     I live in southeastern VA ....they immigrated here, and haven't left. They are worse than pigeons and seagulls put together. They have no natural predators, and you can't hunt in city limits so they are over populated and wrecking havoc

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     @MPgh @APBBlue @StillIRise1963 @Adam_Cadmon1 @statmonkey OMG. Shortly after I moved to Toronto, decades ago, the city was trying to figure out what to do with the Canada goose problem. They don't migrate (mostly, we have mild winters), and parks were a mess. Birth control, cull, what to do? A town in New Brunswick, "don't kill them! We'll take a bunch!" So, transport trucks full of geese were sent east. A few years later, from NB, "the geese are a problem, what shall we do?!" :)

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     @APBBlue @StillIRise1963 @Adam_Cadmon1 @statmonkey They are poop machines, and they are proud of it.

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     @StillIRise1963 @Adam_Cadmon1 @statmonkey I learned that geese are dicks when I stuck my hand through a fence at age 6 or so.

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     @Adam_Cadmon1 Nope. They are not afraid of you in any way. Your dog either. @statmonkey

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     @StillIRise1963 @statmonkey they honk and they try to bite and they are not intimidated by anything.

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     @Adam_Cadmon1 Total dicks. They'll chase you a long way too.@statmonkey

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     @qurlyjoe @StillIRise1963 I feel like I have solid memories of them as late as the 90s. Not sure after that.

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     @StillIRise1963 @inthehands
     That was before I got here then, not quite 7 years ago.

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     @inthehands Makes sense they would be a symbol. @qurlyjoe