For the last 10 yrs or so, we have had a pair of geese fly into our 1.5 acre pond, where they build a nest, lay their eggs, hatching those eggs with approx. 6 to 10 goslings. Sometimes they hang around and raise their offspring here until they fledge and move on, to a larger body of water.
Sometimes they hang around our 1.5 acre pond for only a few days and then simply vanish...gone. Then like this year, the parents show up when we have a south wind and begin the process all over again.
WELL, the wife and I were talking Saturday morning, noting our 'strong, warm, southerly wind'...wondering if 'mother nature' was once again giving us a sign that the beginning of spring and the beginning of the nesting cycle for our Geese had begun.
Warm weather on Saturday and Sunday, along with a strong southerly wind...and this morning, an hour or so ago...we look out at one of our bird feeders and there is a single Canadian goose picking up the birdseed that is being tossed onto the ground by our regulars. Only those Geese familiar with our property would know about our feeders.
Spring is just about here according to the calendar date... but 'our Geese' are telling us that SPRING IS HERE..!
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