As promised in a previous post, I went to Big Lots to buy Goose friendly food. Unfortunately the day that I went was not a good reduced day. They almost always have some kind of cereal or crackers for less than a dollar per box, but this day the reduced rack was empty. I remembered a barrel of stale hard pretzels at home that the kids left the lid off of so I put them in the car for the next Karate in the park day.
The fish were not real happy with this snack as it was a bit hard for them until it sogged out in the water . The geese were not too interested either though there were not near as many as the past trip and those that were left were not even eating the bread that another visitor had left. The turtles, however, loved the salty snack. I have never seen so many turtles come up for food. It was amazing. At one point one was only twelve to fifteen inches from me as I threw him more pretzels. I started to throw further in the lake as I was afraid of getting bit. I have been told that these are snappers and didn't want to take any chances.
I think that next time I will probably get a more fish friendly snack but I still may bring a couple pretzels for the turtles
The geese stayed close to their babies leaving bread lay right next to them
This one turtle followed me around the pond eating all that he could
