What a sight. Seventy geese in arrowhead formation. Grey body, black neck and head... but dark underwing. Are these Canada Geese? If so, they are quite a way east of their usual summering grounds of North West Europe. I caught this flock as it flew over Dawidy this morning.Sunday's swan conjecture (post below) proved accurate; the children saw one of the four on the reedbeds at the end of our road this morning, standing on ice, not happy with the situation. Still, they arrived a week earlier than they did last year or the year before.
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We get loads of Canadian Geese here (naturally, being next to Canada). Funny they are referred to as "Canada" Geese in Wikipedia, but we always call them "Canadian" Geese.
That is a huge flying formation that you have there. They say that if a fellow goose dies, the formation keeps the lost goose's spot empty in the formation. It's a nice thought--not sure if it's true, but I'd like to believe it is.
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