(But without the hot air.)
Migrants are coming though quickly now, on their way to northern nesting spots. Nothing exciting yet, but we saw the first turkey vulture up west yesterday.
This morning Cananda geese stretched across the sky from horizon to horizon.
Our horizons are a lot closer than they are out west, but that is still several miles of flock. I paused in the pulling on of socks to marvel at the sheer numbers of them.
Imagine all those hundreds of birds, each the size of a cat, each with wings strong enough to knock you on your butt if you tangle with one, tumbling through the wind like acrobats, right above your head, practically hovering in front of the big living room windows.
The wind was strong indeed, because they were struggling to get moving and to stretch out in their Vs to go wherever they forage each day.
Some of the flocks are breaking down into pairs already, but most are still in groups from six to six or seven hundred. They drove the boss nuts the other night when I was getting up and down with the sick heifer...they sound a lot like coyotes!
I won't lie and say I like cold weather but you can feel the seasons getting ready to change despite the winter storm warnings on the weather stations. And the daffodils by the kitchen corner are never wrong for long.
We had a TV here on Saturday and a V or two of geese fly over Sunday and Monday. Spring can't be far away!...Can it?
ReplyDeleteSpring? What's that? We're in line to get another foot of snow this week, if the weatherman is to be believed (not sure about that), making this perhaps the all-time snowiest winter since Alaska starting keeping records a century ago.
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I never ever see V's of geese that large. Yes, I can imagine the ruckus . . . but such a lovely disturbance:)
Sounds like you're seeing a LOT of geese, like the flocks I used to see when I was growing up on a Michigan lake, a flow of fowl from horizon to horizon. Here in Saratoga, we see smaller flocks all winter, flying from cornfield to river and back again.
ReplyDeleteI sometime wonder what it must have looked like with the first Europeans landed and saw the great migrations, old diary accounts say the sky was black! I would have LOVED to have been there.
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Joated, looking out the window where snow is pounding down like a professional, I am sad to answer, yeah, I'm afraid it can......alas
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Cathy, thanks! I am enjoying them very much. I don't mind their nighttime chatter at bit.
WW, there have been at least five hundred, and probably a lot more than that, hanging around in front of the Fultonville McDonalds. There is a gigantic flock that swirls around over the mountains most evenings, but they are too far away to even estimate a decent count. So many they look like a cloud of pepper though.
Linda, it is hard to imagine. Once, about twenty years ago a flock of mostly snows, with a few Canadas thrown in, flew over the barn while we were milking. They took about ten minutes to pass and the flock was at least fifty or sixty birds wide. they were not even in a v, just a long, wide, mass of birds. We watched in jaw-dropped awe! There had to be at least seven thousand of them!
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