Goose stepping in the street ...

[DGRossetti]

exactly as per title. Looked out of the window yesterday, to see a goose standing in the road. Not at all distressed, nor phased by the two people that walked by, or the motorbike that went past. Twice.

As I went outside to investigate (not sure what I could have done ...) it ambled off down the road, like it was looking for a particular house.

We're in suburban Birmingham, lived here 17 years and this is the first time . I guess we're closer to the park than we thought.

(The idea of a zero air-miles meal did cross my mind ...)

I have to be honest, I was expecting a totally different thread.
Does it have a lead? Maybe it out ran its owner.

Someone will come running up the street shouting Fenton! soon

Does it have a lead? Maybe it out ran its owner.

No lead I could see (there's also a couple of minutes footage of me following it, then walking in front of it, as it made it's way down the road ...)

Now I have seen a ferret on a lead ....

It will have dropped out on migration? It looks wild not domestic

Food and water, see if it looks injured. Call RSPCA if it is.

It will have dropped out on migration? It looks wild not domestic

You haven't seen Birminghams parks then ... I'm not saying we're awash with them. But we're awash with them.

It's just we're a few hundred metres from the nearest park ...

Food and water, see if it looks injured. Call RSPCA if it is.

I don't think I've ever seen a less distressed creature in my life. It was quite happily sauntering down the road. Not a honk or a hiss - even when I was next to it (or the motorbike went past).

Things I have seen walking down the road (now). Hedgehog (at night), fox(es ?), and now goose. Or, as I said to DW when I saw it ... "It's a f*ing goose !?". Then there was a hare in Evesham ...

They are magnificent birds, aren't they! Really lovely.

They are magnificent birds, aren't they! Really lovely.

Nice sheeny plumage . Makes a change from the usual magpies we get.

That said, I was careful to keep a distance ... they're big enough to hurt !

(The idea of a zero air-miles meal did cross my mind ...)

This remindd me of something I witnessed about 15 years ago. My second floor flat used to overlook a small patch of wasteland (previously used for council garages,but has houses built on it now). There was a hollow in the ground on this wasteland,and when it rained heavily it would fill up with water,often forming a puddle about 20 feet across. I looked out of my kitchen window one afternoon,and to my surprise saw two ducks floating around on it! They stayed there for a couple of hours then flew away. Never saw them there again.