Gear up at 16 feet? Gear down again immediately after a birdstrike? Reduced power on the good engine? Kinda sets the scene for the horlicks that comes next, does't it?
What a shambles.
Perhaps it will take 250 bodies and a half mile hole in central Amsterdam to make the Ministry of Agricultural Obfuscation get the shotguns out and start to cull the swarms of those horrible creatures. Canada geese near airfields are a lethal hazard. My God, will we ever learn?