A dog is probably the best. If someone in the neighborhood doesn't mind walking the dog a few times a day in that area, or even better allow the dog to relocate closer to the pond in someone else's back yard during daylight hours for a week will do the trick. Harass them constantly and they leave. The advantage of using a lab or retriever as the dog of choice is that they chase them out in the water a little ways too to further harass them. If they stay in the pond at night you can strobe a bright flashlight at midnight in their eyes to further harass them.
Geese still come at or just after dawn to my pond a few mornings a week and try to stick around but if you run them off daily they give up and stay away. Of course that is more difficult for a secluded pond with no neighbors and one that you can't visit or monitor daily.
you can try flashing lights, fishing line strung up in strategic places, the chemical solutions that make the grass burn their feet, etc.
plinking them with non-lethal airsoft or bb guns might work in a subdivision too.
Others have suggested a alligator decoy. The home owners might get a chuckle out of that and it may actually work too.
Last edited by canyoncreek; 05/13/16 11:52 AM.
