Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Roman tufted Geese - Capture & release

Shotly after the interesting catch & release of the mongoose in Modderfontein, we received yet another unique call from a Property Management company. They received complaints from various people living in Twin Lakes Estates. Someone released Roman tufted Geese among the other Geese. This caused a vocal territory war, causing those living close to the lake sleepless nights.

This was also a first for us, but determined to get the job done we constructed a boma between a couple of trees and put some feed out.
Shortly thereafter we herded the geese into the boma and caught one of the Roman tufted geese, the other was sitting on her eggs close to the lake. She was easy to capture as she would stay by her eggs.
We decided to relocate them to our plot in Bredell, Kempton Park. Here is a picture of the female...
I am happy to say that she sat on her eggs again without delay and about 2 weeks thereafter had 5 beautiful goslings. They are enjoying daily swims in the pond and thriving in peace
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