Kyle the goose was just a yellow, down-covered gosling when she was rescued by a man at Lake Oswego in Oregon. Struggling afloat in the harbor, she followed his boat and jumped aboard the swim deck.
He saw she had an injured foot and thought the chick might have been abandoned by her flock. It crossed his mind that this encounter was a sign: for him to take the fragile baby bird under his wing—pun definitely intended!