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By the way Eki the species is Canada Goose not Canadian.
Most goose eaten in Canada is farm raised domestic although the Canada Goose is hunted and eaten in season.
Same in the US and there are lots of Canada Geese in the US especially as most go south for the winter although some now stay around Toronto and I suspect the west coast.
Too cold where I live as there is no open water usually from late Dec. until early April.
Come on hope you aint sayin' youn havn't seen :s mokin: any geese in flight yet?
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Ya awll in a heap-O trouble boy
No thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by A.F.F.
Maybe it's because people don't send each other Thanksgiving Day cards. The Finnish Postal Service imported the Valentine's Day to Finland so that they could lure people to send each other cards. The supermarkets imported the Halloween so they could sell Halloween related junk. Maybe if Finland had more turkey and pumpkin farmers, we might have Thanksgiving Day too.
Significant numbers of Canada geese from Greenland fly southeast via Iceland to spend the winter in Britain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Easy Drifter
There are Canada geese in Finland too, but they have been planted here by people, just like the Canada beaver. The European beaver indigenous to Finland had been hunted to near extinction and they brought Canada beavers, which was a mistake. The bigger and stronger Canada beaver took over the habitat of the European beaver so that the extinction was guaranteed.
Edit: I spoke too early. There seems to be about 1000 European beavers left in Finland in a small area in the Western Finland:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...uropa_2003.jpg
I'll wish a wonderful and happy Thanksgiving to all Canadians. You guys are great!
There is now an experiment to re-introduce Eurpoean Beavers in ScotlandQuote:
Originally Posted by Eki
(http://www.scotsbeavers.org/)
Cdn. Thanksgiving in easterrn Canada is when the trees are are at their best for colours and this year was exceptional.
It is also traditionally the end of cottage season and many campgrounds also shut that weekend. However more and more people are using their cottages year round. Some campgrounds stay open until the end of Oct. but not many. They, in most cases, need to get their water shut off and drained before heavy frost. There are some that do stay open all year.
Almost all fall fairs end by Thanksgiving, although the huge Cranberry Festival in Bala is next weekend.
Ontario is cottage/camping/resort crazy and during the summer hundreds of thousands head north every weekend from the GTA.
Things now slow right down until snowmobile/ski season starts, usually in mid Dec. The lake ice is normally not safe until late Dec. and last year it never really was safe on the larger lakes. Safe being a relative term!
I am in the middle of Minnesota and since the city finally forbid feeding the ducks and geese they all, or almost all now move on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Easy Drifter
For too many years, in all but the worst weather, thirty below or more, they would stay aroud and huddle in the same water, keeping it open. Which is fairly easy on river that usually in winter has a very shallow slow current side bay.
Some of the duck that stayed were hybrid domestic/wild. When they finally moved on because no one fed them, some hunters maybe got some odd colored and rather large Mallard crosses.
I hope you had a good Thanksgiving.
How does one tell the Canadian Canada geese from non-Canadian Canada geese?
As they are called honkers, when they fly do they go- honk-honk-eh. honk-honk-eh?