Idaho, We Need To Have A Chat About The Geese… In second grade I stepped I accidentally stepped on an injured bird struggling in the gutter. I felt a crunchy squish beneath my foot and looked to down to witness a gut wrenching sight. The eyes of this poor little bird were bulging, its wing helplessly flapping up to escape. I shrieked with terror and ran all the way home. I've been scared of birds ever since. Throughout the years my fear intensified because independent of that traumatic experience, birds are creepy! I mean, films have been using them as a scare tactic for years! (The Birds and basically all scary movies when they want to set a creepy tone). But Idaho is home to a special kind of avian terror. Geese just fly and roam about as though they don't inspire anxiety in passersby.