How To Attract Geese To Your Pond. You can attract geese to your pond by providing a habitat that makes them feel safe and comfortable with plenty of food. However, like ducks, geese can be hard to attract to your typical backyard pond. They require a very specific habitat that many backyards don't provide.

With intent, planning, and purpose a “duck pond” can be constructed that will attract and support local ducks and assorted water fowl. A designer duck pond can be stocked with exotic water fowl of numerous and interesting varieties; yet still be low maintenance, beautiful, and enjoyable.

How to build a duck pond? How to keep a duck pond clean? Here is our guide and a few videos that will walk you through the process.

Any deeper and we would attract more geese than ducks, which almost defeats the point of conservation in that geese numbers don’t need our help these days, thanks to their penchant for city parks. From the start, this strategy—damming a natural funnel to form a basin—was preferred over digging a hole from scratch.

Ponds with the best chance of attracting waterfowl have some common characteristics: 1. Ponds close to an established waterfowl population . A. As the established population expands, ducks and geese will be looking for a new home. They usually head for the closest suitable habitat. 2. Ponds that are lightly grazed or ungrazed.