Mother Goose laid egg #4 shortly after 6:00 PM on March 28. After she's done, she hovers over her eggs (note that the unearthed eggs are stained with dirt, and the oldest egg is the dirtiest) and settles down to begin incubation, which should take about 28 days. How will the parents feed their young after hatch? The whole family will leave the nest about 24 hours later and the parents will lead their young to water, protecting them as they go.
What are Mom and Dad Decorah doing? We've got a blog about that here: www.raptorresource.org/2022/0.... Does it hurt to lay an egg? We can't ask the geese, but the final slide looks pretty uncomfortable and it sounds like Mother Goose might be hissing softly as she lays it.
If you'd like to learn more about the process of laying an egg, read this blog. The timing is off, since it was written for Bald Eagles, but the process is the same: www.raptorresource.org/2020/0....