The geese are back! I hear them honking!

Every year for the last twelve years, I have lived where geese are heard on route to their northern homeland. Every Spring and fall I have heard them coming north then going back south, and when I hear them it brings a smile to my face. A thought, geese are one of the glories of nature.

Did you ever hear of the "Geese Formation" analogy used at your workplace or for application to life?

Enjoy, have a good day everyone!

Utube links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=velmrZoDznI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tz1IgB6IeA&feature=related

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/geese.html

http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/geese.html

My father used to pull me out of the house to listen to the "honkers," as he called them, going overhead on their fall migrations. One of the small number of pleasant memories I have of him.

Nice to hear Bravalady. Good to have some good memories rather than none.

This past weekend my friend Lois and her daughter and I picked up salads and headed out to a nearby park in the city I live. We found a picnic table overlooking a large pond.

The pond still with some ice in places was filled with an assortment of geese, ducks & ducklings and far to many seagulls! Those Seagulls are a noisy bunch of squakersa with there was non-stop chattering among themselves scavenging for food by the picnicers. While, ducklings bobbed in and out of the pond and it was an enjoyable sight to watch their ackward episodes.

Then, there were the geese. Might of been the group that fly over my place the other day for, they looked tuckered out. The geese were basically resting on the ice in twos peacefully or, floating in the water in all their splendor and beauty with an occassional spreading of the wings occurring. Could be time for mating about now too.

I have a great big field next to wear I live, and everyday in the morning there is at least 100 Canadian geese that land in the field they stay for a few hours and than take off, and I tell you it is a gorgeous sight, a bit noisy, but gorgeous.

Waterbearer what you view sounds so beautiful! I agree, they are a gorgeous bird when going into flight.

Nice view you have!

Love listening to them. :-)

I know seagulls are noisy and aggressive, but I can't help thinking of them as a bunch of rambunctious kids playing. I don't really mind their cries for some reason. Much better than crows.

Bravalady, I have to agree with you. Seagulls squawking is more tolerable than crow noises.

Seagulls are scavengers like crows are from what I know and from what I have seen. Seagulls appear to be less aggressive than crows. Crows use group strategy I have seen to achieve a mean like feeding. Seagulls from what I seen travel in larger groups flying each and every other way picking up food leftovers from garbage cans, the road ... etc., whereas, crows can work together as a group for its food.

I share with you a story of some crows from a day in my youth while walking down the street in the neighborhood I lived in. An image I never forgotten. I came to cross an alleyway and just a few feet off the sideway curb and onto the road, were five crows surrounding a sparrow. It was a predator and prey scenario. The sparrow was laying half dead, being picked at by the crows alternatively and, the crows had the sparrow encircled.

Crows are much more interesting than Seagulls in nesting. Crow nests can be quit a wonderment with bits of shiny objects embedded throughout. Crows appear to manuver in life with more intelligence than Seagulls.

Bravalady do you have any bird stories to share?

Canadian geese used to visit my grandmas pond. I think they were just looking for green card marriages though. Once her ducks started disappearing, so did they.

Totage what you imaged about your Grandma's pond reminded me of the saying, "birds of a feather flock together". For, where you find ducks you usually find geese too.

Thanks for the short 'green card' story.

She still has one goose that has survived at least 15 or 20 years. I'm trying to get her to let me pet her. I think I may have scared her, just as much as she has me when I was little. We used to play in the yard, and where the grass would grow really long, she would nest. lol