1. Good Person, Derry, NH.
2. Feeding advice in context.
a. MWRA.
b. LittleBrook.
c. Friends of the White Geese.
d. The Charles River Urban Wilds Initiative.
1. Good Person, Derry, NH.
Elena asks the following:
Hi! I just discovered that I have three white geese living on my property in Derry NH. This is the first time in the 8 years I've lived here that I've had white geese. I love having them here-is there anything that I should/should not do to ensure their safety?
Thanks for your time!
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Response:
Go to your local farm supply store.
They are best off with a particular blend of food.
The staff should be able to help you.
I am pleased of your concern for your feathered friends, and with their visiting you.
Do not worry about the cold weather. Their down jackets will keep them warm.
They are well adapted to the environment.
The food supply is important. Diet deficiencies can result in physical problems, particularly visible in walking oddly.
PS: If you get a chance, please friend us on facebook, Charles River White Geese, and invite your friends. Thanks.
2. Feeding advice in context.
a. MWRA.
Folks at the pollution plant operated by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority between the playing fields and the BU Bridge brought the ancestors of the Charles River White Geese to the Charles River after their watch dog passed away. They used the geese as watch geese with the idea that the geese would put up an alarm if their territory were invaded.
They continued feeding them until the early 2000s. That was shortly after the vote of the Cambridge City Council to fund changes at the Magazine Beach playing fields which commenced, later, to starve them. After this vote, various oddities “suddenly” happened. One of the oddities was a change in staffing which removed the folks who had been feeding them.
b. LittleBrook.
Here are photos of LittleBrook visiting the Charles River White Geese long after he could no longer be with them every day.
LittleBrook is a Native American who was their best friend from 1996 until several months before Cambridge and its accomplices started deliberately starving the Charles River White Geese. Cambridge and the accomplices lied all the way, of course.
LittleBrook knew the Charles River White Geese quite well. He knew their family structure, their leadership and their leaders in training.
In addition to feeding them, he ministered to their ills with NativeAmerican medicines.
Shortly before the outrages started from Cambridge and its accomplices took full hold, LittleBrook got a bicycle. Two days after he got the bicycle, he went into the hospital as a result of his use of the bicycle. From there, he went into a nursing home putting his body back together as well as possible.
He has been out of the residential care he received for a number of years now.
He still loves the Charles River White Geese, but he physically is not able to provide the care he was providing.
c. Friends of the White Geese.
My cochair took over the feeding duties. Only after the heartlessness abuse of Cambridge and company started did we realize just how important the grasses at the Magazine Beach playing fields were to them.
The breads and other goodies were luxuries which they loved, but were only supplements in their diet.
My cochair realized the problem when their real food was stolen from them by massive machines, and then by a bizarre wall of introduced bushes. Some photos:
Before:
After:
This wall of introduced vegetation is unique on the Charles River Basin to the home and the food of the Charles River White Geese blocking their access to their home and food where they lived and fed for most of the last 34 years. Everywhere else, the DCR and its agents destroy bordering vegetation twice a year, but bordering vegetation has a purpose. The DCR has a goal of killing off or driving away all resident animals. This wall's starving of the Charles River White Geese does exactly that.
The DCR's "explanation"? They said they were creating a lawn to the river. That is an obvious lie.
For years they flat out lied that they had no intention to do harm to the Charles River White Geese.
My cochair started visiting feed stores and learned of the diet they needed. She then proceeded to provide that diet as well as possible.
The situation forced us by the heartless hypocrites made it appropriate to formalize things. Our activities as Friends of the White Geese started in March 2000 when the Charles River White Geese returned to their nesting area which had been mildly destroyed by Boston University as agent for the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
In 2001, we formally obtained recognition by the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Public Charities people as Friends of the White Geese, a non profit, but not a tax exempt non profit.
When the deliberate, heartless starvation started, it made sense to create an organization which could accept tax exempt contributions. This was The Charles River Urban Wilds Initiative.
d. The Charles River Urban Wilds Initiative.
CRUWI has done a yoeman’s task of serving to the Charles River White Geese the food heartlessly taken from them by Cambridge, its friends, and the massive organization in Cambridge lying through claims of sainthood directed at the reprehensible government of the City of Cambridge.
About a month ago, I reported on Kristen Sunter’s Bird Listening show on WMBR Radio, Mondays at 5 pm.
She did a show on the Charles River White Geese. She led with me in a live / taped presentation. After that, she read off segments of an email exchange with the CRUWI folks.
That presentation was so good. I have not been able to upload it to the Blog, but I will try to find other ways to pass it on to you. You Tube, unfortunately, will not work because of its time limits. Perhaps I can edit it down to the appropriate length.
One big difference between CRUWI and me is that CRUWI sees the Charles River White Geese every day to feed them. They have replaced LittleBrook and they know the Charles River White Geese like LittleBrook did.
It was so nice to see CRUWI’s positive comments.
