Confused birds

[wispfox]

Hearing Canada Geese flying in mid-January is pretty strange in itself. But realizing that they're flying _north_ in reaction to the sudden drop in temperature is really very confusing.

I have a vague and perhaps inaccurate memory of it being much harder on groups of two than on larger flocks, and there were _lots_ of groups of two passing by while I waited on the train this morning. Poor confused birds!

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[metahacker.livejournal.com]

flying north

They're not -- I say -- they're not the *brightest* star in the sky, is they?

[deyo.livejournal.com]

Andy has seen similar phenomena. (http://www.galactanet.com/winter/wtf_swans.jpg)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Hee! Poor swans...

I'm glad that _I_ don't have to go barefoot in the winter!

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I just want to thank you for saying "Canada" instead of "Canadian" there. It's a common and understandable thing, to say "Canadian," but indeed, "Canada" is correct. :D

Also: Around here, we have Canada geese resident all year. We do get some geese going north or south as is seasonally appropriate, but throughout the day, we get Canada geese flying every which way, from the golf course to the edge of the bay to where ever they're sleeping that night. Then in the spring, we get babies. :D

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

I just want to thank you for saying "Canada" instead of "Canadian" there.

*amused* You're welcome! ;)

Resident Canada geese would explain much.

I actually checked out their habitat, and this _might_ be part of their year-'round habitat. Hard to be sure.