{"id":205,"date":"2010-04-12T21:23:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T04:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/silly-goose\/"},"modified":"2010-04-12T22:02:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T05:02:23","slug":"silly-goose-nesting-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/silly-goose-nesting-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Silly Goose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine told me about a curious sight he saw on his way to work  and suggested that I go and check it out. With his directions I was  able to find this silly goose, up a tree.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[1278]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.troyandnaomi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Canada_Geese_nest_tree__20100406_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1279\" title=\"Canada_Geese_nest_tree__20100406_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.troyandnaomi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Canada_Geese_nest_tree__20100406_2-600x398.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having commandeered a hawk\u2019s nest from last year, this little lady has  made herself quite at home. And quite high.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[1278]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.troyandnaomi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Canada_Geese_nest_tree__20100406_4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1280\" title=\"Canada_Geese_nest_tree__20100406_4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.troyandnaomi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Canada_Geese_nest_tree__20100406_4-398x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had seen geese nesting on top of a stack of hay bales, but I had never  seen them nest in a tree before. Having thought I had found the one  bird-brained bird that all the other geese must laugh at, I made my way  home\u2026 only to discover another such nest just down the road. This time  there were two up the tree, and very annoyed with me!<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[1278]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.troyandnaomi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Canada_Geese_nest_tree__20100406_7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1281\" title=\"Canada_Geese_nest_tree__20100406_7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.troyandnaomi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Canada_Geese_nest_tree__20100406_7-600x398.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[1278]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.troyandnaomi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Canada_Geese_nest_tree__20100406_9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1282\" title=\"Canada_Geese_nest_tree__20100406_9\" src=\"http:\/\/www.troyandnaomi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Canada_Geese_nest_tree__20100406_9-398x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After some research I discovered that it isn\u2019t that unusual for Canada  Geese to nest high up. Apparently the goslings are light enough to drop  down from a height without injury. Who knew?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine told me about a curious sight he saw on his way to work and suggested that I go and check it out. With his directions I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ep3x-3j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}