The Canadian Geese are migrating through these days. Actually, for a couple of weeks now we've been seeing (and hearing!) them fly overhead. At first, it was small groups; six here, ten there. But lately it's much longer strings of geese, fifty or sixty or more birds long, followed by another string, and another string.
Typically, they fly over in the morning for a few hours. Then I don't see any during the mid-day, but more come through for a couple of hours in the evening.
In late September and in October, the migrating geese are usually flying North to South. Different geese, I guess, different winter destination.
Either way, I can be easily distracted by the sounds of incoming geese. I'll stop what I'm doing (unless I'm on horseback) and go outside to see how many there are this time. If they are low enough, and everything else around me is quiet, I can hear the sound of the air rushing around their wings. It's a sound I always find wonderous.
Not only do I listen, but often times when my eyes lock on a line of geese, I'll try to count them, as fast as I can, by twos, before they have flown past too far to see individual birds. Really, I'm just a nature loving kid in a 53 year old body.
Beautiful photos. Thank you so much for sharing. Warm greetings from Montreal, Canada.
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