"Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination. Calls to you like the wild geese...harsh and exciting... over and over announcing your place in the family of things."

Mary Oliver

MEET EARL & CHOO
February 2008

Albuquerque, New Mexico. January 2008

Earl and I reside in Winnipeg, Manitoba, a prairie city located in the center of Canada and about 60 miles from the US border town of Pembina, North Dakota.

Earl was born and raised in Winnipeg and he has lived here all his life. I was born and raised in Malaysia and spent a short time in Australia, Singapore and twelve years in the United States before meeting Earl and moving up to Winnipeg.

I found very little to like about Winnipeg until I befriended the migratory geese who are summer residents of Winnipeg. They charmed me with their devotion to their mates and young, their intelligence and their friendliness toward us. Pretty soon, I became imprinted upon them. Since Earl is my partner in every way, we visit the geese together and he, too, became their friend.

I learned to recognize certain geese and began to follow their lives from the time they return in late March, nest and raise their young, and stage for the southern migration in the fall. I have been keeping a daily goose diary that I hope to someday translate into a photographic journal.

Please CLICK HERE to visit our feathered family.

Earl offers Frank some cracked corn. We have been friends with Frank for five years.

Earl is a retired Professor from the University of Manitoba. Apart from our geese, he enjoys mathematical strategies and politics.

Choo has a conversation with The Chesters, a family of Canada geese who are dear to our heart. We've been friends with The Chesters for four years.

I like to share my love for animals and nature through my writing, this website and photography. I photographed all the pictures that appear on this website ,except those submitted by you. I also enjoy photographing the birds, squirrels, chipmunks and rabbits who visit our backyard on a daily basis.

In the year 2005, I wrote and published my first book, "The Mouse, The Professor, and Me." What does a mouse have to do with geese? Well, I wrote the book before this website was established. A mouse came to pay us a visit in the winter of 2005 and opened our eyes to his little world and showed us that he and his fellow mice deserved our respect and compassion. This book is available through Lulu Press and Amazon.com. All proceeds from the sale of this book benefit LOVE CANADA GEESE. Please CLICK HERE FOR ORDERING INFORMATION AND A PREVIEW! 

 We created this website to share our stories about our feathered family, the Canada Geese, and while doing so, provide information about them. It saddens us that they have been unfairly maligned by society and we hope, by sharing their stories, that you will see in them what we see: creatures of magnificent beauty, grace and intelligence; creatures who are loyal and faithful to their mates and goslings; creatures who are faithful to the human friends they make; charming, gentle, sensitive creatures who are adorable and lovable to be with. 

We visit our geese from the end of March till October/November. We are their all weather friends, visiting them in both fair weather and "fowl" weather. We cherish every moment of our time with them. They greet us with enthusiastic honks, fly, run and swim up to us, and we feel a warm bond of friendship with them. They are not just our friends; they're our family. We cannot imagine life without them. They allow us to be a part of their mysterious and magical world because we have offered our friendship to them. In return, they have offered their friendship to us. It's as simple as that. There's no need for words. We bridge the gap between our two worlds with our mutual love and respect for each other.

When we answered their wild calls, we found our calling. Our purpose in life is to be their champion, their advocate. If we're able to find new friends for them, we will feel that we have accomplished our mission in life.

Love them. Cherish them. Spread your love for them with everyone you know.

Thank you for visiting and we hope you'll visit often and share our website with your family and friends.

"Geese possess a veritably human capacity for grief. Agreed, one cannot look into the soul of a goose, and the animal can hardly give us a verbal report of its feelings. But the same is true of a human child. ...In terms of emotions, animals are much more akin to us than is generally assumed."

Nobel Prize Laureate Dr Konrad Lorenz, Father of the Greylag Geese.

"There is no sharp line dividing us from the animal kingdom. It's a very blurry line."

World renowned chimpanzee researcher and environmentalist Jane Goodall.