Falls Township has a honkin’ big problem. Throngs of geese are using the community park not only as resting spot for their migrations but also a nice place to stay. Tom Sofield, Levittown Now, covered the response, formed to keep residents from raising a flap about it.

At a recent meeting, the Falls Township Board of Supervisors authorized a new vendor — Yardley’s Geese Chasers of Southeastern Pa. — to convince the birds to move on. The price tag, $16,632 for the year, is a one-percent improvement over the prior outlay for the service.

And wholly worth it, considering the health threat these gaggles represent.

The Geese Chasers will concentrate their efforts on the park’s lake, marshes, creek, canal, and open areas. The tactic of choice is to make the environment uncomfortable for the birds, inspiring them to continue their trek without harming them.

That task will fall to two border collies who will rocket through the park twice daily, dispelling the avian squatters.

This latest effort augments township’s prior success in reducing goose populations in the park; The 100+ geese who formerly wintered there have shrunk to only 20–30.

More on Falls Township’s plans to successfully evict visiting geese — a real feather in its civic cap — is at Levittown Now.