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Six eggs and counting for mother goose 'Claire'

'Claire' the deck-dwelling Canada goose laid her sixth egg since squatting on the balcony of a Terwillegar condo last week
A planter in a Terwillegar condo comples now contains six goose eggs, a week after the Canada goose seconded the balcony as a nesting site. (Courtesy of Derek Zukowski )

Six goose eggs and counting.

'Claire' tends her first egg on an Edmonton condo balcony a week ago. (Laura Osman/CBC News)
That's how many eggs "Claire" the deck-dwelling Canada goose has laid since she seconded the balcony of a Terwillegar condo last week.The mother goose laid her eggs — where else? — in a planter.

Derek Zukowski, who lives on the other side of the patio doors, snapped this shot of all six eggs resting comfortably.

While Claire has topped the average production of five eggs for Canada geese, she's a bit off from the dozen some geese lay.

The eggs are expected to hatch sometime in the next two to three weeks.