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John Devine\/BBC<\/p>\nJohn DevineBBC News, Cambridgeshire, March<\/p>\n
John Devine\/BBC<\/p>\n
The British Trust for Ornithology says it has never heard of examples of geese visiting shops<\/p>\n
A market town that has become well known for its gaggle of geese could have a children’s book published in their honour.<\/p>\n
About 20 white domestic geese have waddled around March, in Cambridgeshire, for the last decade, visiting shops, using zebra crossings – and amassing thousands of social media followers.<\/p>\n
The celebrity geese will feature in a 2026 calendar<\/a>, and now a new book has been earmarked for release next spring.<\/p>\n Shop owners said the gregarious animals had brought “goose tourism” to the town, but there were down sides, including the mess and the aggressive noises they could make.<\/p>\n An illustration from a new book, earmarked for spring next year, tells the story of the rise to fame of the geese of March<\/p>\n Published author and illustrator Victoria Jane Clark said she was working on the layout design and illustrations of the new book.<\/p>\n The creator of the 2026 goose calendar, Chrissie Fadipe, will write the story, and the pair aim to have the book published next year.<\/p>\n “It is wonderful to have the opportunity to draw and paint these beautiful birds who have inspired joy in the March community,” said Ms Clark.<\/p>\n “Being able to immortalise the geese in my illustrations for future generations to enjoy is a huge privilege.”<\/p>\n Published author and illustrator Victoria Jane Clark with some of her draft paintings of the geese<\/p>\n Mrs Fadipe added that a children’s book and a colouring book were also in the pipeline for next year, along with a new website launching in October.<\/p>\n “I did not have this on my bingo card for 2025, to be an unofficial celebrity agent for a gaggle of geese,” said Ms Fadipe. <\/p>\n “People have just fallen in love with them. <\/p>\n “With all the doom and gloom in the world, these geese have just brought so much joy to people.”<\/p>\n She added that sales from the calendar would go to two animal rescue charities, the Waterfowl Sanctuary<\/a> in Godmanchester near Huntingdon, and Sally’s Duck Rescue<\/a> based in Wisbech.<\/p>\n Chrissie Fadipe said the original plan of printing 800 calendars would need an extended run, as “people have been requesting up to 15 of them for Christmas presents”<\/p>\n Shop owners Nigel and Julie Lambert said there had been pros and cons to the geese.<\/p>\n “It is lovely to see them, but the mess they leave behind is incredible, you feel like you are playing hop-scotch, you have to try and dodge the poo, it is a problem,” Mrs Lambert said.<\/p>\n Mr Lambert thought the book was “a great idea”, adding that the birds had brought tourists to the town.<\/p>\n Nigel and Julie Lambert say the birds have brought “goose tourism” to the town<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John DevineBBC News, Cambridgeshire, March John Devine\/BBC The British Trust for Ornithology says it has never heard of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-386644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115121850261395675","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Chrissie](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6c8ca8f0-84b5-11f0-b98d-d308c56c1729.jpg.webp.webp\")
Chrissie Fadipe<\/p>\n![\"Chrissie](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/079a0890-8346-11f0-aa76-e16ed8c5f2c4.jpg.webp.webp\")
Chrissie Fadipe<\/p>\n![\"Chrissie](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/79d69cb0-8347-11f0-a2c4-0f55e42ed0ec.jpg.webp.webp\")
Chrissie Fadipe<\/p>\n![\"John](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/789ea180-84be-11f0-acf0-71f4294565e0.jpg.webp.webp\")
John Devine\/BBC<\/p>\n