Northeast Gardening: Daily Musings, 1 by grampapa

grampapa wrote:
I've been watching the Canada geese on our lake for the last week growing in numbers, already getting ready for fall migration. The lake, rather ironically, is called Eagle Lake, and I'm fairly sure there are no eagles around. When we chose the lake front lot, the nature of the geese was explained to us. We enjoy them and live in peace, but not so many of our neighbors who seem to have made a full time job of chasing them from their yards. these are not excellent photography, they are taken from inside my sun room thru the window (I'm still in my jammies), but I enjoy these beautiful birds and thought you might, too

There are around 150 of them now, but there will be more as fall approaches. If you get up before 6, they are quietly floating on the lake, or sleeping on lawns (pic 1), then they spend a little time having a drink, splashing in the lake, whatever (pic 2). You can tell when they are going to take off because of the honking. Some leave quite abruptly in groups. The last group this morning must include younger juveniles from this year. There was honking and then I could see that they had a purpose. They all started swimming towards the end of the lake (pic 3 & 4). They neared the end and started turning around (pic 5). And sure enough...takeoff (pic 6). like they needed a runway.

have a lovely day
gram