AR-News: (US DC) Once an Easy Mark, Resident Geese Are Getting Wary

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Once an Easy Mark, Resident Geese Are Getting Wary 

By Angus Phillips
Sunday, February 8, 2004; Page E04 
When hunting for resident Canada geese in the Washington suburbs first got 
cranked up 10 years ago, much was said about how unsporting it would be. The 
lumbering "golf course geese" lacked the wariness and survival instincts of wild, 
migratory birds, we all felt, and would fall to the gun like tenpins. 
And so they did -- for a while. An early foray to a country club near the 
Beltway left me feeling downright guilty. We had to shoo geese off the fairways 
to get them aloft and when they soared back in, fearless, it was child's play 
to bring them down. We were doing a public service, we told ourselves, by 
thinning the burgeoning flock of so-called nuisance birds, but it sure didn't feel 
like sport. 




full story:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22025-2004Feb7.html 




"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
Albert Einstein

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