One of the benefits of walking the same grounds almost every day I get to know the resident wildlife pretty closely. I know the deer that make the park home, I know the different red squirrels that call home to separate locations within the park. I also get to know the fathered residents of the park as well. That includes the resident lone goose. Every year there seems to be a lone goose that takes up residence at the ponds. On this particular morning I found the lone goose on the backside of one of the ponds facing the woods that lead to the Musconetcong River. It was letting out calls and getting responses back from the river. I watched as the lone goose changed position paced back and forth straining its neck while calling. As I continued on my walk the geese continued their conversation. In the end the lone goose remained the lone goose.

Who knows what was being said…I can only imagine.