LadyA wrote:For all you know, there MAY have been a stray gander that happened by, at some point, and so there MAY just mysteriously "appear" a couple of goslings some day......! Nobody's fault. These things happen. And bless her, she must have been lonely.
Heck! Both great replies! Wish I'd had these before I swiped both eggs. We have had the odd greylag stop by the pond. If she lays another.....Minorcafan wrote:As the goose is guarding one egg, can you swap it for a gosling? Or will OH know
Anyway, Goosie came off her nest four or five times yesterday after I'd taken the eggs, to bathe, stretch and preen and to eat grass, and she generally looked pretty happy (and maybe just a little relieved?). She certainly wasn't rushing back. She called out only a few times when she discovered the eggs gone (though I did feel mean, watching her hunting through her carefully woven dome of straw and down).
Thank you again for all the help. Now, anyone know anything about peacocks...?
