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November 12, 2004
Goose maneuvers
According to one website, the Canada geese start migrating in August. Maybe that's true further north, but here in central New York, they're mostly just doing maneuvers until December or January--whenever the really bad weather sets in. (And the resident flock at Rogers Nature Center stays over all winter.) We saw so few geese through the summer, I was hearing speculation that the Atlantic flyway had shifted. Today, however, I saw a flock of nearly 1,000 birds filling the sky between Hamilton and Eaton. Last week I saw my first flock of snow geese of the season; I'm made a little nervous by their early appearance, even though the wooly caterpillars are saying no sweat. (Some fool named C. Susan Brown calls wooly-bear winter predictions a "superstition." It all depends on who the wooly-bear is talking to; not everybody can read them!)
Posted by senioritis at November 12, 2004 04:35 PM
Comments
Do you know why, when geese are flying in "V" formation, one side of the V is shorter than the other?
...There's fewer geese on the short side.
Posted by: Susan at November 12, 2004 10:45 PM