Owner, Tri-State Geese Patrol
Bill owns Tri-State Geese Patrol and writes everything published under Field Notes. The business moves Canada geese off client property without harming them, using trained Border Collies, across Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York.
If you have read something here and want to talk about your own property, the fastest route is the phone: (203) 856-4889. Bill is also Bill Belward on LinkedIn.
Everything on this site comes out of the same job: standing on somebody else’s property, working out why a flock has settled on it, and running a program that changes the birds’ reading of the place. A Canada goose that has used a site for several seasons behaves differently from one that arrived last month, and almost every useful answer starts from that difference.
Tri-State Geese Patrol runs more than one crew, so a property ninety minutes from base gets the same recurring schedule as one fifteen minutes away rather than a thinner version of it. On a program whose whole mechanism is consistent repetition, that is not a detail.
Repeated, scheduled visits that teach a resident flock to read the property as a place a predator patrols.
Changing what the ground offers, at the water and grass edge, so the site stops being worth settling on in the first place.
A read of the site and a written scope, including where the work sits against state and federal rules.
Every field note is written for somebody with the problem in front of them right now, and every claim in one that is not our own observation is linked to the source it came from. Those sources are the wildlife agencies and the universities: Connecticut DEEP, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, MassWildlife, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, USDA APHIS, the FAA, and research from Cornell, Penn State and others. The four notes published so far carry between nineteen and twenty-three such links between them.
Two things follow from that, and both are deliberate. Where the rules differ by state, the notes say so rather than averaging them into one tidy answer. And where a number is not established, it is left out. Timelines and visit counts are set per site after somebody has walked it, so you will not find a figure here that was produced before anyone had seen your ground.
Written by Bill Belward
Droppings on greens, grazed collars and a flock that keeps coming back. What a Canada goose program looks like on a course that still has to be played, across CT, MA and NY.
Read Goose Control for Golf Courses →For about four to five weeks each summer Canada geese cannot fly. What the molt changes on a property in CT, MA and NY, and whether waiting it out is a plan.
Read The Weeks Canada Geese Cannot Fly, and What That Means for Your Property →A slip complaint, an aggressive bird, a fouled pond. Where authority and responsibility sit between owner, association, tenant and town in CT, MA and NY.
Read Who Is Responsible When Geese Cause a Problem on a Property →The flock came back. What separates a Canada goose program that holds from one that works right up until the day it stops, across Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York.
Read Long-Term Goose Control in Connecticut and New York →A goose nesting on a flat commercial roof is a protected nest, an OSHA access problem and a complaint at the door below. What is legal and what to do first.
Read Canada Geese Nesting on a Flat Commercial Roof →Moving Canada geese off ground the public uses, without harming a protected bird or creating a new hazard. What the agencies allow, what needs a permit, and what actually lasts.
Read Safe Goose Deterrents for Properties →What you can actually hire for a Canada goose problem, what each option does, what it asks of you, and which ones need a federal permit. Written for Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York.
Read Goose Control Near Me →Your town banned feeding the geese and the flock is still there. What a ban actually reaches, why the birds stay, and what to check next in CT, MA and NY.
Read Your Town Banned Feeding the Geese. Here Is What Actually Changes →Resident geese do not leave and migrants arrive on top of them. Why a goose problem peaks in December in CT, MA and NY, and what works in cold weather.
Read Managing Canada Geese Through the Winter, When the Numbers Go Up →Call Tri-State Geese Patrol on (203) 856-4889 at any hour, or send a message and it goes straight to him.
