This was another redefining moment for me as a nature nut; before this very
cold, breezy, snowy morning I’d only seen (and heard) the Wall Of Geese
phenomenon in nature documentaries. It is much, MUCH more impressive when
you’re out in the world with it! (with your mouth hanging open, if you’re
me, and your finger just twitching down the shutter button repeatedly while
snow blows in your ears…) I thought there might be fifty or so snow geese
in the pasture, having seen a few land; I spotted a small group and started
taking pictures and then realized…most of what was on the ground in the
pasture was geese, not frozen water! THEN they all took off, circled once
to get a look at me over by the fence, and landed about a quarter mile
further away. This is a small flock for migration season, but at seven to
ten pounds per goose average weight, it is still a **lot** of bird on the
wing!
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That is cool! I saw a large migrating flock fly like that in Burns, Or - really amazing.
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