Geese in my Garden! Shoo or shoot? Goose dinner, anyone?

CDs hung up also work well for most birds as the glare from the sun on them can be almost blinding. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

I'm going to be hanging those aluminum pie pans and old CD's up. I hear they scare all kinds of critters away, and we have all kinds of critters! LOL I love watching them, and I surely don't mind them being in other areas of our land, but they're devastating my garden! So, we'll see what the pans and CD's do. I've tried those plastic owls... the head swivels on one and the other is a motion sensor and hoots whenever something comes near it. Apparently, the geese are smarter than that! LOL Also, don't worry... I would never kill anything I wouldn't eat! I'm not a mean person at all and I would probably have trouble shooting anything unless I was starving, or if it was attacking.

Ha ha ha! That is true. Maybe I'll invite the neighbors over for a giant barbeque of cooked geese!

I have two dogs already. Unfortunately, the geese outweigh the dogs by 5-fold, at least! I have two Maltese. The geese chase THEM! LOL I've heard of pie plates and also old CD's. Thank you for reminding me! I had forgotten about them. I'll put some out there today to see if it has an effect. I bought two of those plastic owls, one has a swiveling head and the other has a sensor and "hoots" when anything passes in front of it. Apparently, the geese are onto that ploy! I'll try the plates and CD's. If that doesn't work, we'll be buying a freezer to keep all the goose meat!

No one owns them. They are wild geese. We live in the mountains, in the country. These geese have nests around our lake and multiply every year. When winter is coming, they fly off, not to be seen again until the following Spring. I've planted giant Cedar trees which, when mature, will keep out the geese and a lot of other things like deer, but they are very small right now. I've also strung fishing line around parts of our property where I don't want deer trampling everything, and it works! Maybe I'll put more fishing line around, just a bit lower, so the geese get confused when they can't just walk on in. Other than that, I'm having goose for dinner!

Wow, really? Wish I could be there and have a dinner with you.

I'm going to try the pie plates and old CD's. The response above yours reminded me about them! I had read about them but forgot... ah, the aging brain! We can shoot any wild animals that are on our own property here, as long as we don't aim towards a road. We could actually have a continuous supply of meat if I could shoot them all! Deer, squirrels, rabbits, ducks and geese are all over the place here! I did skin and gut a deer once, but I didn't shoot it. It ran into my car. I asked the police (who had to shoot it because it had only broken it's back) if I could have it after seeing the damage it did to my car (and my insurance didn't cover deer damage!). He said sure and he and another guy put it in the trunk of my car. (It was a huge fella! Six points!) I was so angry about the damage to my car that I had no problem gutting this thing! At first, I was so upset for the deer. Then, once I saw the damage and after the police shot it, I was more upset about my car. I was known as "The Huntress" after that. LOL (Also teased for eating road kill. )

I forgot to add this... a picture of me with my "road kill". LOL

Nice kill! Canadian geese are a protected species in the US (don't know where you live), so you can't even kill them on your own property, here. Sucks, because they're such a nuisance but them's the laws, I guess. G'luck with the honkers!

Oh, cool!!! I'll do that! I was wondering what I was going to do once my fruit trees start producing fruit! I planted a couple of Ranier cherry trees this year and read that the birds absolutely adore them! I knew I'd have a fight on my hands once the trees start producing fruit because I love them as much, if not more, than the birds. I didn't know what else to do besides put bird netting over them, and that sounds like a lot of trouble. I bought netting to use, but the "mobile" idea sounds great! Maybe I'll make some smaller ones and place them in the areas where I know the geese get in to my garden area. Thank you so much!!!

It IS quite funny to watch! I haven't seen anyone else chasing geese, but my husband laughs so hard when he watches me! We are allowed to hunt and shoot game animals, like wild geese. If one of them looked at me, I couldn't shoot it. I'm like you that way. But if it decided to attack me, I'd have no problem! Unfortunately, I'm not that great at aiming, so I'd probably have to get my husband to shoot them for me. I told him that I wouldn't want to just hurt them; if I was going to shoot them, I'd want to kill them immediately. I couldn't stand to see them suffer!!! He said he could do it. Of course, saying something and doing something are two different things! He's never hunted before, so we'll just have to wait and see. If he does manage to kill one of them, I'll make sure to take pictures! He's always been an "indoor" kind of person. I KNOW his family would love to see pictures of him as the "wilderness hunter". I'll have to dub him "The Wild Man of Winchester". LOL

wild geese migrate in the fall to a warmer clime.

Oh I forgot this. I know a lady that hangs those dang aol cd's that come in the mail in her fruit trees and off sticks in her garden. She says that the birds hate the bright reflection that comes off them so it keeps them out. I had never seen it before but I do know that she has one of the most beautiful gardens I have ever seen. I hope some of this helps.