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Robeson County Anglo American (74-year-old male)


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Now I've got Canada geese out at my pond and they're, they're wild geese, they're not pen raising out there. And there's, there's a coup-- a pair of them now who was hanging around and getting ready to-to nest out there. Cause the last five years they have--this same pair has been nesting out there on the bank of the pond. And the one year, some kind of varmint tore their nest, well two years, when the bank of the, uh built their nest on the east side the pond, some kind of varmint, I don't know, fox or a coon or a possum, something got tore the nest all to pieces and tore up the eggs. And they didn't reset, but the times that they have nested on the west bank, now you could walk right up, I'd walk up to them, get as close as I am to your feet. She'd just set there, course she doesn't want me to be there, but she won't move. The old gander a-blew at me. But uh, she's hatched five once and six twice, but I know that you--now when they hatches those birds, the last hatch last year. I reckon I was there late in the afternoon looking at her, and I knew it was about time.


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