For more than a century Chautauqua Lake has been the goose that lays golden eggs. That was the case when lakefront hotels and amusement parks dotted the lake’s shores around the turn of the century.

A quartet of the much-loved Douglas Shire birds has been taking turns to guard four large, shiny, white eggs, which are nestled in a palm tree just next to the Ramada front counter. Surprised resort ...