Those dirty Canada Geese are migrating North again. The young couples often stop to see if my pond is a good nesting site. What are your best methods to shoo away geese??
I have a pair of plastic swans which I move every day, and the geese simply hang out in another part of the pond.
I have a pellet gun, which only scares them about half the time. The stubborn ones end up bloodied, and I don't want to be disposing of bodies, so I gave up on using pellets.
From advice on FB, I got a powerful green laser! Surely that will scare them off. Well, for one thing, it is very difficult to repeatedly hit a moving goose in the eye with a laser from 100 yards, but I'm having more success aiming by using a tree for stability. When I do hit them in the eye, they just move their head. They DON'T become flightful. Next I'll try the decorative scatter lens for the laser, but I don't have much hope at this point. If you have success using a laser, what am I doing wrong?
They don't seem afraid of my dogs or me, because they can escape into the water. I have a small island accessible only by boat, so they have (unintended) refuge there, too.
Chase them in the boat! That works! They fly away, even from the island, if I row after them in my noisy jonboat. That seems like too much effort to scare off a pair of stupid geese, but it's the only thing that works every time.
Any other ideas?

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