{"id":815846,"date":"2026-07-21T07:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/815846\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T07:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:01:13","slug":"city-cracking-down-on-illegal-feeding-of-geese-at-oshawas-waterfront-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/815846\/","title":{"rendered":"City cracking down on illegal feeding of geese at Oshawa\u2019s waterfront parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GEESE_CO_TOWNOFWHITBY-640x315.jpg\" title=\"City cracking down on illegal feeding of geese at Oshawa\u2019s waterfront parks\"><img width=\"640\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GEESE_CO_TOWNOFWHITBY-640x315.jpg\" class=\"left wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The City of Oshawa says signs are now up at the beaches along Lakeview Park and Ed Broadbent Waterfront Park, warning people not to feed the geese.<\/p>\n<p>Ward 5 and Regional Councillor Brian Nicholson says he sent a letter to city staff after receiving an increase in calls and messages from people worried about the growing population and aggressiveness of Canadian Geese at both waterfront parks.<\/p>\n<p>He says it\u2019s become a problem as more people are feeding the birds.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to Durham Radio News, the city confirmed it will be putting up shadow predator silhouettes to discourage large numbers of geese from congregating.<\/p>\n<p>Bylaw officers will be issuing fines to those who don\u2019t comply.<\/p>\n<p>File photo courtesy of Town of Whitby<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mistape.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"mistape-link mistape-logo\"><\/p>\n<p>If you have found a spelling error, please, notify us by selecting that text and pressing Ctrl+Enter.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamradionews.com\/archives\/javascript:history.go(-1)\" class=\"button\" onmouseover=\"self.status=document.referrer;return true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Go Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Oshawa says signs are now up at the beaches along Lakeview Park and Ed Broadbent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-815846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}