West Vancouver resident Art Breyer sent in these photos of a goose and her goslings and tells this story:
This happened on Mother’s Day May 8, the goose had a nest on top of our eight-story building at 2243 Bellevue Ave.
This nest used to be occupied for years by seagulls, this year the goose decided to take it over.
After hatching the eggs, the one gosling somehow managed to get off the building and the mother goose walked it to the water, you can see in the picture the mother goose walking the little one across the road towards the water with traffic stopping. Unfortunately I did not have a zoom camera so you can’t see the little one, it’s walking very close to the mother in fact more like walking underneath the mother.
I went to check the nest were I noticed a lot of eggshells. I immediately assumed there has to be more than one gosling and started looking for others. One had fallen off the building onto hard surface and did not make it, two others dropped to a patio from the roof where they two huddled in a corner until I found them.
My wife Elaine and I watched for the parents and also listened for goose honking to see if they were still looking for the little ones, but no such luck. I took them to our unit, gave them some water, and called the SPCA and wild life, they suggested we take them to the shelter, which my wife did.
