Brent Geese Behaving like Starlings?

Question

I noticed someone on this Site having problems with Starlings where I live its Brent Geese. For the last twenty years or so we have been inundated with Geese. This is the East Coast of Ireland, And they feed on the foreshore when tide is out and head inland when tide comes in, to feed and Socialise in Parks andWoodland up to 3 miles from the Sea. They are very beautiful Birds, who Swarm in Flights of up to3 or 4 hundred in number and then all of a sudden they descend to feed on the Parkland. People like to Feed them With Bread Crumbs. In the Coastal Village of Portmarnock North of Dublin City there is a Marsh on oneside and Grassland on the other where Geese and Mallard ducks like to congregate and people feed them. I was admiring them one day a flight of 3 hundred, when i was Bombed from above Kplop Kplop i shouted a load of verbal abuse in there direction. I try to avoid there Flight now when i see them coming.Does anybody else in there Country have this same Phenomenon.

These Birds used to migrate from northern areas like the Artic and Scandinavia in winter but now permanently reside here.Its a bit hard to avoid them as they circle around before deciding to alight on a suitable piece of parkland, They are in Flights of anything up to 100 metres by 100 in formation. Our starlings fly in smaller groups of about 50 birds or so unlike other Countries which swarm in hundreds.

Some time ago the authorities spurred on by People complaining about these birds Splatting on them the cars etc said they were thinking about a cull destroying a lot of them . There was an immediate outcry from the Population of the Country on no account should this happen, because everyone loves these birds and they like feeding them and so the Government got a fright and withdrew there statment.

Answer 1

I have never been pooped on by Brent geese or any type of goose for that matter. I did see some of them heading your direction on Friday though. But it seems like you were kind of asking for it by standing under a flock of 300 birds. Next time bring an umbrella.

Answer 2

Out the back of my garden theres fields we get hundreds of birds
sea gulls,magpies,ravens,crows plus all the blue **** & migrating birds.Two weeks ago I seen a grouse its the first time I have ever seen one & if I had not seen one on a bottle of whiskey I would not have known what it was there beautifull amazing colours.Been lucky never been hit .