Goose warning - Not sure if this is genuine - it first appeared in 2017 and as far as I know nobody has ever come up wioth a definitive location - a bit strange as you would have expected widespread press coverage. I'd spend more time researching, but it would probably be a wild goose chase!
Having said that, I can recall numerous "chalked" board warnings when seagulls and crows have set up nests on railway property and have been making life miserable for passengers whilst they have chicks in the nest (clarify - the birds had chicks, not the passengers).
Several times a year a motorway in the UK will get a short closure because a swan has decided to land on the road - I've experienced one on a main road (the A1) near me when a swan decided to walk across rather than fly - being the UK everybody was very polite, slowed down, changed lanes and nobody sounded their horn.
@chris-mills There's a pond a couple miles from my house with a population of semi-tame Canada geese on it. My city has firearm discharge restrictions, so the geese are not hunted. The road is a very busy route, and every now and then a gaggle will waddle slowly across the road to feed on the grass, holding up a great herd of cars for 3 or 4 minutes. We have a few swans in the area, too, but they seem to stay out of the roads.
My mother's mother's mother was pure English.?ÿ We might be sitting around as a family and someone would tell a joke.?ÿ Grandma would not understand the joke.?ÿ She would then say, "I don't get it.?ÿ I must have too much English in me."?ÿ That would mean it was an inherited trait more than an environmental trait as my great-grandmother died in childbirth when my grandmother was a little short of her fourth birthday.?ÿ
