canada goose

Here's on with the Ahh! factor!

Well Peeps, Went to Lacky Lakes with BFs Will H yesterday, not a lot about at all. We are off home shortly today, and as theres work on the line we use, we have to go via Norwich instead of Cambridge. Its gonna take 6 houors plus, and I'm sure by the time we get back to Hastings, I will be ready...

Went to Mere Sands Wood to see if any sign of the Kingfisher. Very quiet. Captured this Canadian on the nest from Rufford Hide.

In this one, from the last dip and shower before the pair lifted up and skimmed the surface with their tail ends (washing their genitalia?), the splash looks kind of like an Elizabethan collar (the ruff kind, not the cone). Maybe like the ruff collars, this behaviour is meant to help control...

I recalled this image (a split second before the "Mr. Clean" one) as more of a tiara, but seeing it again I see that the tiara is slipping over his head and onto his neck. Still, what I learned from the series is that they're tossing water over their backs as a kind of shower.

I've posted other pics from this series before, but saved this one for the May competition. What caught my eye was the pair dipping their heads - in time with one another, and too quick for it to be feeding dips. I didn't realize until I got this image up on my computer that they were bathing -...

Came across this Canada Goose on one of the local ponds yesterday. I brought a photo to my bird club meeting last night and no one could tell me what is going on with it's pigmentation. If anyone can shed some light on this spotted neck goose let me know. It sure looked a bit strange to me.

I'm not sure if there's enough detail in this; so I could change my mind, and upload something else instead. This was happening close to the bank of one of the islands, so it's at least 100m away. Also each pic is a reduced resolution to fit 4 in one image. Anyway; these two Canada Geese were...

Canada goose just doing goose stuff. It had a mate close by.

9x11 inches; 6x8 image only. Linoleum block print. Based on watercolor and photos of Canada Geese seen along Wissahickon Creek next to Morris Arboretum in Philadelphia, PA in early spring of 2010.

Stunning sunset tonight on Pennington flash, couldn't resist waiting for an extra hour to get these.

two in love with the canada geese

I was going to ask you all to guess what was this species, but then I realised that this was impossible. This character was doing backward flips and enjoying life!!

Yet another of the Canada goose dance moves. This is the lift, immediately after the dip

And in the last of the dance moves, both goose and gander stretched wings, lifted up high, and skimmed along the surface a ways.

A Canada Goose kicking up a fuss at Strumpshaw Fen. Ron

The calm before the storm.

The bad guy in action.

Have not been able to get out much lately but I did find these Canada Geese the other day. Two of the Geese were a couple, and the male was trying to keep all of the other geese ( male I guess), away. It was a very neat show. I guess Geese are a lot like elk.

So there I was sat in the rain for an hour in a reed bed behind a camo net, the ducks were getting closer, Goldeneye, Tufties, Pochard and a few Goosander, when all of a sudden I heard.....Woof, Woof..........the duck flock was 10 miles away in about 30 seconds......a few Canadas were the only...

A common goose year-round, winters on Golf courses, Corporate Office , park locations were snow free for grazing. Becoming a pest during breeding cycle defending nest from pedestrians passing near. Early nesters chase native fowl from their territory. New Industry arose to chase geese from...

Photo of a Canada Goose on the River Stort