Dekers Posted September 6, 2015 Report Share Posted September 6, 2015 Anyone with experience of having even a pair of resident Canadas on their land will know that they are extremely aggressive towards other birds - that's why I shoot them. I prefer to shoot bigger numbers over the winter, but if they are required to be completely removed then a professional pest controller will tell you that destroying eggs is the best way to go about it. I didn't realise that destroing the eggs also killed the adults, learn something new every day. Indeed...telling the Greenkeeper to wait until they lay and you will deal with the eggs will not get you much work. Professional Pest Controllers tend to get called to move birds, not eggs. Longer term control may well involve egg work, but if you have dealt with them all before, there won't be any eggs to deal with anyway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossEM Posted September 6, 2015 Report Share Posted September 6, 2015 Should have elaborated, of course you would cull adult birds first, then any new birds that begin to nest, as well as disturbing their nests and destroying eggs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieT Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 Should have elaborated, of course you would cull adult birds first, then any new birds that begin to nest, as well as disturbing their nests and destroying eggs. Being the obtuse clown I am, why would you need to destroy the eggs if you have shot the adults ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scolopax Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 And what happens if you do not find the nests and are presented with a crèche of fluffy yellow goslings? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anser2 Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 It always admuses me when people claim they are having trouble with the small numbers such are in Deckers photo. On the marshes where I shoot its not unusual to see 40,000 pink feet and we have had up to 90,000 yet there is never any talk of controling them as a pest species. The most efective way is to rocket scare them anyhow. We had 200 canadas feeding on a direct drilled barley crop 2 weeks ago. One session with rockets and we have not seen them since. More effective than summer shooting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dekers Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 It always admuses me when people claim they are having trouble with the small numbers such are in Deckers photo. On the marshes where I shoot its not unusual to see 40,000 pink feet and we have had up to 90,000 yet there is never any talk of controling them as a pest species. The most efective way is to rocket scare them anyhow. We had 200 canadas feeding on a direct drilled barley crop 2 weeks ago. One session with rockets and we have not seen them since. More effective than summer shooting. You missed this part............ The Canada always seems to be an emotional subject with varying views, usually narrow views, they can be a serious issue in many parts of the country and have come to be far more than a Wildfowling Sport Goose. I understand you are a wildfowler who shoots on the marshes for sport, as far as I'm concerned there is little in the GL that would cover that on the whole, and it would be a seasonal thing, fine. I suspect there were at least 200 in my picture, but that is a sight that had been repeated all along the Thames, etc., etc., in my area. In that environment there is nothing sporting about it, they are a Pest! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossEM Posted September 16, 2015 Report Share Posted September 16, 2015 There's no difference, in ecological terms, between the canadian goose and the grey squirrel, mink, muntjac etc. They are invasive species which do little good for the environment. For me, as a sporting prospect they have nothing in common with wild grey geese. However, they should still be treated with respect and out of personal choice I do not shoot them outside their former closed season, even for reasons of control. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent Posted September 16, 2015 Report Share Posted September 16, 2015 It always admuses me when people claim they are having trouble with the small numbers such are in Deckers photo. On the marshes where I shoot its not unusual to see 40,000 pink feet and we have had up to 90,000 yet there is never any talk of controling them as a pest species. The most efective way is to rocket scare them anyhow. We had 200 canadas feeding on a direct drilled barley crop 2 weeks ago. One session with rockets and we have not seen them since. More effective than summer shooting. Very true but when discussing things with some who know not quite enoughvabout geese to fill the back of a matchbook Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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