Our Daily Visitors

What got me out of bed this morning was the declamation of geese. There’s a pair of Canada geese that have been visiting the field outside our house for many weeks now. Usually they come by in the morning, but sometimes they will stop by in the afternoon as well: on Monday afternoon they stayed in one spot nearby in the field for several hours! Obviously they’re still finding something to eat, even though the field, which is rented out by Campbell Soup for crop experiments, was recently plowed and is pretty dry now.

In March at a meeting of the Yolo Audubon Society, we went to hear a performance of the local children’s songwriter Linda Book. Her songs are all about environmental themes, and she has quite a following among the younger set in Davis. The experience of being chased by geese at the Arboretum led her to write a tongue-in-cheek song about geese, one lyric being “There nothing nice about a goose, my friends”! There’s no shortage of Canada geese in Davis.