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Several miles up from the cottage, the Crowe takes quite a meander* (bend) at the tiny hamlet of Glen Alda. The river meanders a lot in this region, including on the cottage property, but you can really see it here. I took this last Saturday when I also went out for my own kind of a meander.
A 3-shot, handheld, stitched pano.
*Meander is the proper, geographical term for a bend like this.
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The first male (scout) bird arrived on Easter Sunday. This might be him? (the first female was seen in the garden on the 7th of April.. Little bird photography doesn't get fun until "critical mass" bird population arrives... (about 2 to 3 males, 4 or more females)... meanwhile, planting goes on
Glacial Park
McHenry County Conservation District
Interestingness: Made it to #243 in Explore on September 29, 2007. Thanks everyone!
Canada Geese (Branta canadensis)
Wagbachniederung, Germany_w_0339
In 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada geese, forcing pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger to land the plane on the Hudson River, New York.
Migrating Canada geese, in their iconic v-formations, can fly an astonishing 1,500 miles in just 24 hours. They can also waddle indefinitely around your local office park.
In recent years, more people across the United States and Canada have noticed the noisy black-and-white-headed birds taking up residence year-round on golf courses, lawns, and other green spaces. Have these geese, perhaps encouraged by milder winters and easy suburban living, simply stopped flying south? In many cases, yes—but the explanation is complicated.
In the classic migration pattern, flocks that wintered in the southern U.S. fly north in the spring, returning to the same spots in the high and sub-Arctic to breed and nest. In September and October, these flocks head south again—with a new generation in tow. With an average life span of 24 years, members of this species may make two dozen migrations in a lifetime, using the same “rest stops” along the way.
But there are exceptions. Even before Europeans settled the Americas in the 1600s, some members of this species—which was later named Canada goose (not “Canadian”) by Carl Linnaeus in 1758—never migrated.
These populations nested in a swath of habitat ranging from the Great Lakes to the Rocky Mountains, moving only far enough south each winter to find food and open water. When Europeans arrived, they discovered these so-called resident geese were easy pickings, and nearly wiped them out by the early 1900s.
A half-century later, conservationists and government agencies reintroduced captive-bred birds across their former northern U.S. range, and, boosted by a few surviving flocks, resident Canada geese made an astonishing comeback.
Today the nine-pound birds live in every Canadian province and state in the continental U.S.—and their populations continue to grow. In the 1950s, about a million called North America home; that number has since ballooned to seven million, according to estimates by the Canadian Wildlife Service. (The birds are also booming in Europe and New Zealand, where they are an invasive species.)
Our spring came a little earlier this year compared to 2015. I shot this same tranquil scene just one day earlier than this last year. See here to compare: flic.kr/p/rQdh76
“It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”
― Mark Twain
Horse Dynamics!! --- looks worse than it actually is. This is a youngster being told off by an older horse - but the teeth do not actually break the skin ---- but I am sure stallions in the wild fighting over their harem would!!
PS ... ah!! the joy of labour: Pepper was restless all night but no sign of the pups yet!!! :))
Branches of left tree formed AL letters shape and I added my Ryuu (dragon) watermark sign on the right, lol.
AL could mean short form of a name, my name, lol ;-)