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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-bald-eagle-canadian-goose-battle-photographer-1.5958964

 

Sometimes encounters between Canadians with our American friends appear like this contest, between the venerable Canada goose and the equally venerable American Bald Eagle. An apt metaphor for our often uneasy co-existence on the same continent over the last 400 years. Nice how it works out.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-bald-eagle-canadian-goose-battle-photographer-1.5958964

 

Sometimes encounters between Canadians with our American friends appear like this contest, between the venerable Canada goose and the equally venerable American Bald Eagle. An apt metaphor for our often uneasy co-existence on the same continent over the last 400 years. Nice how it works out.

Even though I am Canadian, I absolutely hate Canada geese. They are loud, obnoxious, ill-tempered and messy. I have been chased by one on several occassions. They aren't very 'Canadian' in character or temperment...lol. They're complete assholes and should have been named Demon geese.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-bald-eagle-canadian-goose-battle-photographer-1.5958964

 

Sometimes encounters between Canadians with our American friends appear like this contest, between the venerable Canada goose and the equally venerable American Bald Eagle. An apt metaphor for our often uneasy co-existence on the same continent over the last 400 years. Nice how it works out.

 

 

“Bald Eagle...is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly…[he] is too lazy to fish for himself.”

 

About the turkey, Franklin wrote that in comparison to the bald eagle, the turkey is "a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America...He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage.”

 

Did Benjamin Franklin Want the National Bird To Be A Turkey? (fi.edu)

 

This article claims Franklin's desire to take the turkey as a national symbol is a myth but he doesn't say nice things about our eagle either.

 

I like our coin over Canada's goose!

 

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Even though I am Canadian, I absolutely hate Canada geese. They are loud, obnoxious, ill-tempered and messy. I have been chased by one on several occassions. They aren't very 'Canadian' in character or temperment...lol. They're complete assholes and should have been named Demon geese.

 

Canada Geese almost kill American lives!

 

 

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“Bald Eagle...is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly…[he] is too lazy to fish for himself.”

 

About the turkey, Franklin wrote that in comparison to the bald eagle, the turkey is "a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America...He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage.”

 

Did Benjamin Franklin Want the National Bird To Be A Turkey? (fi.edu)

 

This article claims Franklin's desire to take the turkey as a national symbol is a myth but he doesn't say nice things about our eagle either.

 

I like our coin over Canada's goose!

 

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Comparing the depictions on the two coins, our goose is pure Art Deco and the Eagle Rococo or maybe Baroque.

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I absolutely hate Canada geese - they're overpopulated and flying rats in my opinion. Can't stand them.

I love the sound and sight of them flying overhead in V formation each spring and fall, heralding the arrival of the new season. To me there is something comforting that life goes on about us mere disorganized humans in such a primal yet orderly way, announced by their honking presence.

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LOL! From the still photos it doesn’t look the the goose fought back.

 

He must have as he was still standing toe to toe with the Eagle after the Eagle attacked him multiple times and decided to fly off.

 

I'm reminded of Churchill's speech I think made in the Canadian House of Parliament in 1943 after winning the Battle of Britain when he described the British facing the Nazi's alone in 1940. I think Hitler had said Germany would wring Britain's neck like a chicken. (This was after he had wrung France's neck, France's official symbol being the rooster.)

 

Churchill in his speech uttered one of his more memorable lines, "Some chicken, some neck"!

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I think you're talking about pigeons.

Haha, no definitely Canada geese. I've had a lake house for the past 17 years, and they literally are nasty ill tempered flying rats. They're protected so you can't kill them, but the law preventing it is so outdated and their population has exploded, unfortunately.

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Canada Goose versus Bald Eagle

Even though I am Canadian, I absolutely hate Canada geese.

We can't shoot bald eagles here!

I absolutely hate Canada geese. Can't stand them.

 

I think it all depends on how they are prepared. Cooked at the proper temperature, with the right seasonings and tasty sides, I'm sure either would be fine. Harland Sanders probably could've done wonders with either.

 

I absolutely hate Canada geese. They are loud, obnoxious, ill-tempered and messy.

I love the sound and sight of them... To me there is something comforting... announced by their honking presence.

I've had a lake house for the past 17 years, and they literally are nasty ill tempered flying rats.

 

Would y'all prefer...

Fowl play: Swan harasses UK town by knocking on doors for hours?

 

It’s his cygnet-ture move.

 

Residents of a British town say a say a swan named Cedric keeps knocking on their front doors for hours on end.

 

Befuddled homeowners on one street in Northampton have no idea why — but say it’s driving them slowly crazy.

 

“He starts by rattling the letter box, then bashes the metal with its beak quite loudly,” Stephen Legg, 70, groused of the bonkers bird.

 

“The racket reverberates through the whole house,”Legg told Metro.co.uk. “It doesn’t do any damage, but it’s extremely irritating.”

 

Cedric lives with his mate on a nearby lake, and started persecuting the front doors about five years ago.

 

It started out of the blue, as Cedric and the Mrs. had lived in the lake for at least two years prior without incident, Legg said.

 

Sometimes Cedric just knocks once or twice, then waddles off. Other times the bird will keep knock-knock-knocking for three hours.

 

“Pretty funny,” laughed neighbor Wendy Howard, 63, a retired nurse who recently recorded Cedric in the act.

 

“But I’m glad it isn’t my house because it is very noisy,” she noted.

 

Legg has no clue what Cedric wants when he knocks. The swan shouldn’t be hungry, since neighbors feed the birds on the lake all the time, he said.

 

“He does it every year [in] the summer, then doesn’t bother for the rest of the year,” Legg told Metro.co.uk. “It is a flipping nuisance.”

 

Legg tried covering the door one year, but that impeded mail delivery. He also purchased a device that made “a swan-repellent ultrasonic noise,” but Cedric appeared to be attracted, not repelled, by the sound.

 

“He just nestled up to it, so it did no good at all, and even might’ve encouraged him,” Legg said. “It cost me thirty quid so it was a complete waste of money.”

 

If Cedric keeps up with his tiresome knock-knock jokes this summer, Legg said he’ll have to cover the door again and leave a window open so mail deliveries can be flung inside.

 

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https://videos.metro.co.uk/video/met/2021/03/23/2479839751967389292/640x360_MP4_2479839751967389292.mp4

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if any country deserves the loonie as a national symbol it's the US.

Why?

Donald Trump getting 74 million votes... insurrection at the capitol... the Kardashians... mass shootings approximately every 30 minutes... marjorie taylor greene... QAnon... etc.

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Donald Trump getting 74 million votes... insurrection at the capitol... the Kardashians... mass shootings approximately every 30 minutes... marjorie taylor greene... QAnon... etc.

LMAO - as a US Citizen … even I find that hard to argue.

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