iN PHOTOS: Canada geese goslings caught on camera in Kamloops, Okanagan

Canada geese goslings are hatching and you can spot them waddling around parks, feeding on grasses and sedges and swimming in lakes and waterways in the Okanagan and Kamloops.

West Kelowna photographer Dean Pratley went to Munson’s Pond in Kelowna to photograph many species of birds last weekend.

“It was pretty quiet and I think it’s because most of the birds were nesting,” he said. “We only saw one goose guiding its seven chicks around the pond, figured they were an early hatch.”

Pratley does landscape and wildlife photography around the Okanagan and enjoys going to Munson’s pond in the springtime.

“Normally the pond is teeming with wildlife, you can sit quietly in behind a bush and the birds will come close,” he said. “Some of the birds there are unbelievably beautiful.”

The fluffy, yellow goslings come in clutches of six to eight with just one brood born per year. The babies can walk, swim, feed and even dive at two day old, according to All About Birds. After they hatch they spend the first week pecking at objects, feeding and sleeping. Many of them will stay with the parent birds for a year.

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