{"id":70789,"date":"2017-04-25T09:37:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T15:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/goose-nest-in-peril-of-rising-animas-river-waters\/"},"modified":"2017-04-25T15:37:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T15:37:08","slug":"goose-nest-in-peril-of-rising-animas-river-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/goose-nest-in-peril-of-rising-animas-river-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Goose nest in peril of rising Animas River waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UacVjkk5wFA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>From atop the pedestrian bridge near Rotary Park, the drama unfolds.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the mother goose was frantically toiling about a small island of grass that was slowly becoming submerged as water levels rise in the Animas River, reaching 2,420 cubic feet per second by the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Her loyal mate for life, perched above the tower of the adjacent railroad bridge, looked on, helpless.<\/p>\n<p>Both seemed fated to lose about five eggs nestled in the middle of the island. Frustrated, the mother goose resigned herself to incubating the eggs, and it\u2019s unclear how much longer they need to hatch.<\/p>\n<p>Goose eggs generally take 28 to 35 days to hatch. And with continuing warm temperatures expected in the next few days, it may be only a matter of time until the waters overtake the small outcrop.<\/p>\n<p>Cue the intense narration of Planet Earth\u2019s Sigourney Weaver.<\/p>\n<p>But in all seriousness, pedestrians catching sight of the distressed situation on Thursday, promptly stopped to take pictures and exclaim on the harshness of nature.<\/p>\n<p>According to Joe Lewandowski, the Durango-based Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesman, the agency as a rule does not interfere with the natural process, no matter how compelling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeese have been laying eggs there for years, and unfortunately, this year the water is coming up,\u201d Lewandowski said. The adult geese will leave the area, and then they\u2019ll be back to reproduce next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of geese throughout the area,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd again, nature takes it course, and that\u2019s usually the best way to let things go. It\u2019s tough out there in the wild.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>atop the pedestrian bridge near Rotary Park, the drama unfolds. On Thursday, the mother goose was frantically toiling about a small island of grass that was slowly becoming submerged as water levels rise in the Animas River, reaching 2,420 cubic feet per second by the afternoon. Her loyal mate for life, perched above the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[304,13,316,603],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-70789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-animas-river","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-video","tag-wildlife"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70789"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=70789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}