I know ewest - my folks do like the ducks but see the geese as a problem, especially the year round locals that don't migrate anywhere. My dad has been banging the 12 guage off periodically to spook the geese away here lately, but they are usually come back within a week or so. Keep in mind that one of my folks primary hobbies is bird watching and my dad also like to carve duck decoys out of wood in his spare time. Giving the ducks a safe place to rest during the spring migration takes priorty over letting people come fishing this time of year even though they provide lots of free fertilizer. The ducks and geese do end up eating quite a bit of the weeds in the pond, especially the sago pond weed.

Has anyone ever seen a tornado of hundreds of snow geese come swriling down in for a landing? It is quite the site.

It could be worse ewest, up at Desota Bend National Wildlife refuge they regularly have 15-20000 geese resting there every day for several months in both the spring and fall. Desoto is a Missouri River oxbow lake roughly 5 miles long and it has extremly hard algae blooms every summer.

I am sure Nedoc has more problems with waterfowl than we do, his ponds are located directly in the central flyway. Ours is located halfway between the Missouri and the Central Flyway so we don't get near the traffic he does.