Bohola did a double take and pulled into Olsen Park for a closer look. Out in left-center field on one of the baseball fields, a mangy animal, bearing its fangs, stood over a pair Canada geese lying in the grass. Bohola moved in for a closer look, only to discover that the animals were stuffed replicas.
Bogota officials hope the geese are fooled as well.
We've stopped them from nesting. Now we have to imprint them with the fact they don't belong here. The town has, in effect, transformed Olsen Park into a sort of chamber of horrors for geese. On Tuesday morning, borough workers set the cannon in the middle of the park's ballfield, and every 30 seconds or so it emitted a bone-rattling boom that could be heard all the way to Hackensack's River Street. Across the road, in a grove of trees, a battery-powered speaker blared eight different distressed bird cries.