Thursday, July 18, 2013

What I have learned from watching geese

1. They exemplify Darwin's survival of the fittest. (7/18/2013)

2. They will chase you out of the woods to protect their babies. (7-19-2013) Haha!

3. The term "silly goose" really has meaning for me now.  (7/19-2013). 

4. Baby geese do not fly until about 5 months. (7-20-2013)

5. Geese are effortless swimmers.  The water hardly moves as they cut through it. (7-20-2013)

6. Occasionally papa goose will intimidate deer so the babies can have the corn. (7-20-2013)

7. Geese like to hang out with each other except for when it comes to food. (7-21-2013)

8. Geese will sometime leave you a big wing feather as a gift for feeding them. (7-21-2013).

9. We had a lot of rain last night--good for the wetland which was drying up.  There's room to swim again. (7-22-2013).

10. The geese are becoming wild again and will not come just for the corn.  They are eating bugs and vegetation in the wetland as part of being wild geese.  This is good.

11. How is it that geese swim in a single file? (7-25-2013)

12. The babies have begun to fly just about 10 feet and not far from the ground.  What an awesome accomplishment for their parents.  The corn has fortified them and they are beautiful!

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