Four newborn baby geese have been waddling around our courtyard, drawing attention from staff members and students.
“This was a very pleasant surprise for our school,” said Gordon Stokes, Rachel Carson principal.
Four baby geese were born on the week of May 1. This has happened several times in the past years around this same time.
“I knew that this was most likely going to happen again, so it was not a surprise,” said Officer Matthew Griffin, Carson Middle School Resource Officer. “The pond and rocks area are the types of areas that geese look for to put nesting down and this has happened in the past.”
He reassured people worrying about the geese being removed from the school.
“I have no intention of removing the geese,” he said. “We just plan on leaving them to be in their natural environment and let nature take its course.”
There are four fluffy baby geese and two adults. They have been walking around the courtyard and taking baths in the pond present in the courtyard to spend their time.
“As our school is named after Rachel Carson and the person she was, it is nice to have a moment to reflect on her through the geese,” says Mr. Stokes.
Rachel Carson was a marine biologist, writer, and conservation activist and she won the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
According to Mr.Stokes, “The geese can be used to implement in our learning and school by possibly even having a naming contest for the geese,” and along with that, allowing classes to observe the geese in their habitat.
Elliot Cook, an eighth-grader on the Wolves team says, “I thought the geese were very cute.”
Officer Griffin said, “It is just nice that the students get to observe a form of wildlife right in their own courtyard for a brief time,” indicating that the geese will probably take flight and leave once they are old enough the same way in the past.
“This is a positive unplanned event and ranks high on interesting things that have happened in our school,” says Mr.Stokes.
