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.
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.
ReplyDeleteThat 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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