Linn, this book has the answer to your goose question. The author had a good time watching nesting geese in a tiny bog near his home, then they were gone. He found them in a farm pond two or three miles away. Apparently, that's normal. There's a pond next to a restaurant near here. Last week I noticed there were no geese at all there. By the end of the summer, there'll hardly be room on the shore for the grazing geese, and they're notorious for mugging restaurant patrons on the patio.