The Birds Are Back

Since the end of 2014, construction noise from the Arts and Transit Neighborhood has died down around Forbes College, making room for a different kind of music: geese. A gaggle of about 60 can be spotted on the lake and manicured lawns of the Princeton golf course, day and night.“They make a lot of noise,” Forbes College Building Superintendent Toni Cifelli said, adding that geese and robins seem to have settled at Forbes unusually early this year. “I think it’s because people feed them.”Forbes students whose rooms face onto the golf course said they began noticing the geese several weeks ago, and that the birds are surprisingly active.“It seems like they’re always awake. I don’t think they ever sleep,” Neamah Hussein ’17 explained, adding that they are particularly loud in the morning.“I hate the geese,” Sam Harris ’17 said. “You can hear them all night.”Check out the music from within a Forbes room, windows closed... 

 - AW