#goosewatch

[sinistergooseberries]

goose's autumn's concerto rewatch

so this is a taiwanese drama that i came across circa 2014. it was released 2009 and only now i came to know about its popularity back then.

i still remember how i was surfing youtube for twdrama recommendations as i was introduced to dramaland back then. the image of those pixelated slides and old school editing is imprinted in my mind and i will never forget it. i remember liking it very much back then and now that ive watched an episode, i still like it.

i realise that i didnt really take in the beauty of autumn's concerto and was too young to comprehend the things that it addressed. i just wanted the 'bad boy' to be cured of his bad boy sickness by the 'good girl' like most of us did back then. but i trust young goose in their drama taste cause one of the best dramas and novels that have become famous today, i have already either read or watched them. i have to give a pat on the back to my younger self for finding this gem.

it was released when twdrama and their OSTs were getting popular. i still remember how the theme song made me feel all mushy and gooey and honestly, that time holds a lot of affection in my heart.

so, for nostalgia's sake and better comprehension, AHOY!

[missedmilemarkers]

In the heart of our bustling urban parks, nature continues to weave its magic. 🌳✨ On my latest adventure, I stumbled upon a beautiful interaction between a group of Canada Geese and a solitary White Heron. The geese, protective and inquisitive, approached the heron with a mix of curiosity and caution, creating a serene tableau that was a joy to capture.

A Dance of Curiosity

The reflections on the water were mesmerizing, as the geese cautiously approached the heron. It was a perfect moment of nature's harmony and coexistence. The heron, unfazed by the geese's presence, continued its peaceful activities, making this encounter even more enchanting.

Reflections and Ripples

The setting of the pond, with its tranquil waters and surrounding reeds, provided a stunning backdrop for this interaction. The play of light on the water enhanced the reflections, adding a magical touch to the scene.

A Moment of Coexistence

This peaceful coexistence between the geese and the heron highlights the adaptability and resilience of urban wildlife. It's a reminder of the delicate balance that exists in nature, even within our busy urban environments.

Capturing the Moment

Photography in urban parks offers endless opportunities to witness and capture such beautiful moments. Each photo tells a story of curiosity, coexistence, and the serene beauty of nature.

🌿✨ Dive deeper into this serene encounter on my blog: Missed Mile Markers. Don't forget to like, share, and comment! Let's celebrate the beauty of urban wildlife together. 🦆📸💚

[lotusfurliveson]

Star Clan

All images are created using

the clan gen cat generator on github

I combine Star Clan from all my clans. Be aware that there may be spoilers for queued up posts. 

Ravenwillow: Twocoloured medium furred elder tom of Lotus Clan with sage eyes. Died at 136 moons from unknown causes. Clan founder.

Frogstar: Ticked long furred tom(trans) Leader of Mountain clan with green-yellow eyes. Died at 179 moons after being mauled by dogs. One life was lost to a gang of rogues. Former Apprentices: Hollywhisker, Grousespot, Fernpaw. Clan founder. 

Houndheart: Marbled medium furred medicine cat she-cat with pale yellow eyes of Mountain Clan.  Died at 24 moons after being buried alive in an avalanche. From another clan, disgraced for a transgression she did not talk about.

Sootblur: Marbled short furred furred warrior she-cat with gray eyes of Mountain Clan, died at 23 moons when attacked by a gang of rogues, she was abandoned as a kit and raised by the clan, former mentor: Honeydew. 

Fallowfur: short furred medicine cat she-cat(trans) with cyan eyes of mountain clan. Died at 85 moons of yellowcough. Clan founder. Former Apprentices: Caterpillarrip and Shadowmeadow. Former mentors were Mousestripe and Flightmeadow

Rowanwave: Smoke short furred tom with pale yellow yes deputy for Frogstarpale of Mountain Clan, died at 86 moons from yellowcough. formally from another clan, Star Clan sent him a sign telling him to leave. Former Apprentices: Flintbird, Caterpillarrip, Tawnythrush. Back legs and tail were mangled by falling rocks.

Mousestripe: Sokoke medium furred mediator(former medicine cat) she-cat with silver eyes of Mountain Clan, died at 164 moons from infected wounds, clan founder, former apprentice: Fallowfur. 

Weedrose: Smoke medium furred elder tom with gree-yellow eyes of Mountain Clan, died at 158 moons from a snakebite, clan founder, former apprentice: Grousespot. 

Dashbark: mackerel medium furred warrior tom with pale green eyes of Mountain Clan, died at 13 moons of yellowcough, abandoned as a kit and adopted by Mousestripe, former mentor: Hollywhisker.

Flintbird: ticked long furred warrior she-cat with cobalt eyes of Mountain Clan, died at 25 moons of yellow cough, half clan - LotusfurXunknown, former mentor: Rowanwave. 

Brightpelt: Smoke mmedium furred warrior tom with gold eyes of Mountain Clan, died at 17 moons keeping a large dog out of camp, half clan - LotusfurXunknown, former mentor: Hollywhisker. 

Conepaw: Sokoke long furred apprentice tom with gold eyes of Mountain Clan, died at 11 moons when his patrol was ambushed by rogues, half clan - LotusfurXunknown, former mentor: Grousespot.

Fernpaw: Bengal long furred apprentice she-cat with sunlit ice eyes of Mountain Clan, died at 11 moons when his patrol was ambushed by rogues , half clan - LotusfurXunknown, former mentor: Frogstar. 

Lotusfur: Single stripe long furred warrior tom with golden eyes of Mountain Clan, died at 30 moons when his patrol was ambushed by rogues , clan founder, former apprentice: Flintbird. Carried a scar on his back form a fox fight.

Rosepaw: medium furred apprentice she-cat with golden eyes of Mountain Clan, died at 13 moons when his patrol was ambushed by rogues , clan founder, Mentors: Moonshimmer and Grousespot. 

Moorshimmer: Tabby short furred warrior she-cat with cyan eyes of Mountain Clan, died at 94 moons when his patrol was ambushed by rogues , clan founder, former apprentice: Rosepaw. 

Goosewatcher: Two color long furred Elder tom with grey eyes of Mountain Clan, died at 123 moons from unknown causes, clan founder. 

[smae76]

#goosewatch #wildlifephotography #geegeebabockbock #coastalgeorgia #love #instalove #76boutique #seventy6boutique https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz4AeDiAYBL/?igshid=7fzsj0afq5xp

[goose-watch34]

Hanging out with the herd ☀️

[moosifer]

Today's #goosewatch pic. Everything is going good it would seem. #geeseofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BwiZKWkBFW0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=om0aezxie2vh

[thechillypantry]

Beautiful day today finally! 75 degrees in Northern NY....NOT the City! Hanging on the farm watching the geese in the pond with some wine. . . . . . . . . #piperloucollection @piperlou #downonthefarm #northernny #goosewatching #relaxingwithwine #wine #winelover #winetime https://www.instagram.com/p/CAd2Cr-ghhq/?igshid=v20dsfj3s1p0

[akitania]

i had nothing better to do while goosewatching this morning than listen to ys because i was pretty sure one of the songs talked about a river. turns out all of them do, although i was thinking of cosmia. so if you’re looking for music to listen to while you’re lying on a semiwooded riverbank, can’t go wrong with ys.

[thankmrgoose]

GooseWatch: A Digital History Project

Introduction

Have you ever just stopped and realized how important Canadian geese really are to UWaterloo culture? I mean really. Just go to the campus store any spring term and you won’t fail to find an abundance of geese-themed paraphernalia, anything from t-shirts exclaiming “I Survived Nesting Season!” to your very own plush goose. The popularity of the Canadian goose penetrates all levels of Waterloo culture both on a institutional and student-driven scale. How did this species become Waterloo’s unofficial symbol and how has its interaction with Waterloo culture evolved over time. That’s what I’m trying to find out.

Research Purposes

To track the history of the goose as an unofficial symbol of UWaterloo

To identity what factors may have contributed to the rise of the goose in campus culture and triggered specific memes

To explore the effectiveness of digital history methodologies to explore and display historical trends

To encourage amateur historians and establish that even seeming inconsequential historical analysis is worthy of exploration

[neveth]

Goosewatch!

Injured goose has been retrieved by the city’s animal services and is on its way to be checked out at the wildlife rescue center. The A.S. Guy said he’d been chasing this goose all day - it could fly fine, but one of its legs was clearly injured. He said it looked like fishing line had gotten wrapped around its leg and embedded in the skin - probably cutting off circulation and hurting like crazy. I sat outside near the goose until he got there, and now I hope it makes a speedy and successful recovery! 

[goose-watch34]

Coffee is life @timhortons

[moosifer]

I wasn't sure that it was going to happen again this year. But I get one final #goosewatch before my time at this job is over! #goosewatch2019 #goosewatch2k19 (at Manassas, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwf0Cx6Bg9G/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=t5tf9ydbo72z

[life-as-an-insomniac]

Hey friends, I am doing a weird project for school, so if you feel like helping a girl out, can you please follow my goose account! (yes, I said goose) It can be found here! thanks friends!

[thankmrgoose]

Space and Time (Spatial History): Overview

rUnfortunately, this section was just way beyond my scope in both skills and time to complete. I will give you some sense of what ideas may have been explored here and what sources/methods could have been applied.

GooseWatch (The Other One): A History

In Spring of 2013, the Student Success Office became interested in joining the goose meme fun (and probably ensure that students aren’t attacked by angry parent geese) and began mapping out nesting sites based on tweets of their locations. Eventually Mapping, Analysis and Design (MAD) got involved and, now GooseWatch exists as a crowd sourced map of goose nesting sites.

I’m actually a bit terrified. THERE’S SO MANY.

Eventually this information might come in handy when figuring out how changes in the campus landscape impact geese nesting habits. Maybe individuals in certain majors are more likely to hate/embrace the #gooselyfe based on their experiences with nests. Having a map of these nests over time makes these questions possible to consider.

While I can’t seem to find the past nesting locations via google, GooseWatch is run through Waterloo’s Open Data Initiative so it may be possible to access past year’s data. If not, one would probably be able to find past screenshots on social media of the site or (worse case scenario) simply do what its creators initially did. Search through social media for sightings and map them out. There’s also this from 2015 available.

So that’s one thing I wanted to play around with in this section because this does relate very strongly to geese spatial history, but beyond that there’s other things to consider as well.

Columbia Lake 

Something a lot of people don’t seem to recognize is that Columbia Lake was actually artificially created.  When Laurel Creek was being realigned, the lake was added to act both as a reservoir and a recreation area. Seeing that there is documented information that the lake is used by Canadian Geese, at first I considered looking into how the lake changed local geese populations and if that changed geese appearances in campus culture. As it turns out, the lake was developed in the 1960s. With uWaterloo only existing since 1957, this doesn’t leave a huge “before” time span to look at. Even then, I would argue (based on my text and image search of Imprint and Chevron’s early issues) that it didn’t impact campus culture as after the development no more geese were mentioned more than before. So yes, goose populations may have risen but it seems this wasn’t that drove the change in its appearance in campus culture.

On the other hand, changes to the lake did take place in 2004 so maybe that changed somethings.

Other Changes in Campus Geography

Another interesting subject to consider is how new campus buildings played a role. 

In 2004, there were huge concerns by students about the loss of green space on campus. The development of new infrastructure (in this case the Quantum Nanotech Centre) over the years has put concrete in the place of green space. Fun fact: Canadian Geese like a) grass and b) open areas where they can see all potential incoming predators. So you’d imagine that geese populations would have gradually dropped after these green spaces were build on. Knowing this, maybe goose population and campus obsession with geese don’t relate. Maybe the geese have less places to go and are now in spaces where humans transit through more? That’s another thing to consider. Had GooseWatch existed for longer maybe that’s something that could have been found out.

Duck, Duck, Goose

A final thing I’d explore is the banks of Laurel Creek. This isn’t something I can comment on definitively, but I heard it through the grapevine (i.e. Environment students) that in the past. We used to have a high duck population. To address this, the campus supposedly altered the borders of the creek, removing plant species that attract duck but while ducks diminished a bit somehow Canadian Geese became the new issue. Eventually, work that been done to restore this vegetation but the damage as been done and now spawn of Satan infect campus. Or as legend says-

It definitely makes a fun story about where the geese came from (at least from an ecology nerd sort of view), but whether it’s true or not- I haven’t been able to find much information on it. Either the Environment students and profs have been messing with me or their knowledge of campus events and changes is a lot more expansive than what’s preserved on the internet and accessible archives.

It totally is possible that these issues would be information seen/noticed by Environment students/profs present during such changes or passed down through oral history. So a) checking out this theory in and of itself would be cool, but even b) finding out whether the narrative is true and finding out how it got passed along and with how much accuracy is also a cool exploration as well.

Conclusion

Hopefully, this section at least gives you some sense of what can be done in exploring the relationship between changes in space and trends in time. Whether I or whether you actually go ahead and go ahead and explore this one day is anyone’s guess, but at very least I hope these proposed plans and observations help in some way.

[dwarvenscience]

183 - HONK 2

183 – HONK 2

#GooseWatch2k16 Be safe out there. …also I took a line out of the song please don’t be mad at me