I’m not a hunter. Some come to my site and quickly view various areas of my site and assume I’m a hunter but I’m not. I’ve never witnessed the death of an animal of any kind. Not a deer during hunting season, not a squirrel getting run over, not a cat capturing a bird, nothing. Ever. Until yesterday.
It was a beautiful day as I drove along a road that I’ve seen wildlife before. Some feeding off the side of the road or your usual critters like a raccoon or possum that are not so lucky feeding off the side of the road.
As I looked ahead, which was probably about 10 car lengths, I saw about 20 geese crossing the road. Marching in line, they stretched across the entire road. I thought to myself, “Awww, I wish I had my camera. It would be a perfect picture for my blog.”
My thoughts quickly changed to, “Why isn’t that car heading my way not slowing down? I know they have to see them. They have to see them. How can they not see them?” “Please slow down. Slow down. Why aren’t they slowing down?”
I couldn’t take it. I loudly shouted, “Why aren’t they stopping?” “Oh my gosh, please don’t, please don’t, please don’t.” And then I stopped my car and put my hands over my mouth in horror.
And in a matter of seconds, it looked like a semi plowing through a down pillow factory. Feathers were flying.
As the car approached I did what any normal road rage person would do. I slammed on my horn and cussed. If I knew how to beat up someone I would have gotten out of my car. But I don’t. So I blow on my horn and cuss. I’m a blow the horn and say bad words kind of girl.
I couldn’t tell who was driving the car. A man a woman or a critter road killer.
I looked in my mirror and saw their break lights and wondered…how did they not see the geese? Seriously. Geese are very tall. The sun was behind them. There was plenty of time to stop. Did they do it on purpose? Who would do that? Did they stop because a feather flew in their car and they had to throw it out the window? Did they hear me and want to fight me?
You know when you drive by road kill and you tell yourself not to look and you look and ask yourself why you looked? Poor little thing, I looked.
Thankfully they only injured one out of the entire flock.
Have a good day all. I’m off to my kick boxing class.
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That is too bad. Hopefully it is just case of not paying attention, and that it wasn’t done on purpose.
That’s infuriating. I’m not even a big fan of Canada geese, for all the mess they make. Giant pidgeons, really.
I saw someone deliberately drive through a flock of geese like that once, killing two adults. They were accelerating going into the flock on a quiet residential street, so there was no doubt it was deliberate. My only consolation was that one of the birds broke their windshield.
I live in an area with lots of Canada Geese -there’s one area where mom & dad goose cross a 4 lane highway with their babies (residential) and we all stop for them every time. I’ve even waited while they crossed my tee box just last weekend while golfing. They scare me when they are on the ground – they are fast and they hiss like a cat!!
That is a cool picture and it is sad to here what happened.
It pains me to think that some people have no respect for wildlife at all and that sometimes people driving just are not paying attention to the road. Either way it is sad to have something like that happen.
they could have killled themselves! hitting anything at high speeds with your car is dangerous.. this folks obviously are as stupied as they are mean and hateful.
Ahhhh, poor goose…Sorry you had to witness that event. You wonder if that person was a hunter or not? Are they a PETA person, who will inflict the pain and point to someone else?
Did anyone who witnessed this try to get the injured goose to a wildlife hospital or rehabilitator? I don’t know where you’re located but please always report such injuries if you can’t take the animal in yourself. If you need a list of such places in your area for future reference, please let me know and I can forward a list. There’s no need for a wild animal to suffer without help after an incident like this. I have frequently taken road-injured animals if I can safely catch them. If not, I call animal control or a local wildlife rescue.
I would assume that you have witnessed an irresponsible act by a teen age driver or some other “Adult” human for whom there are no words to that define that level of stupidity.
Sad that you had to witness this event.
Today when I got back from lunch there was an injured young Canadian goose in our parking lot. It had been hit by a car and couldn’t walk on one of its legs. I called the wildlife rescue in my area and they asked me to capture it if possible. So I put it in a cardboard box (it didn’t put up much of a fight, assuming that means it was very injured) and waited for them to show up to take it. About a half hour went by and the bird struggled in the box a couple of times but then by the time the rescue got here the young goose had died. I can’t help but feel responsible, if maybe i should have let him go into the water nearby instead of capturing him, putting him into maybe too small of a box and causing him to suffocate or die of shock in the heat? Anyone know what the right move should have been? I used a small box intentionally because I didn’t want it to be able to thrash around and injure itself further. Maybe that was a mistake…