Posts tagged geese

White on white.

White on white.

Dashing through the snow…

Dashing through the snow…

Thanks followers!!  Everybody flap your wings now!

Thanks followers!!  Everybody flap your wings now!

Jockeying for position under mom’s tail-feather umbrella, these goslings are likely weathering their first storm at just a few days old. When the goslings are born they are bright yellow with a dark beak, looking more like baby ducks. They are able to swim as soon as they are born and the adults will lead them to safety in open waters. As the weeks pass, their yellow down darkens and changes to gray. By nine weeks old their plumage has significantly changed and their flight feathers have grown in, and they begin to look more like adult birds with a jet-black head and neck, white cheeks and chinstrap, tan breast, and brown back. Interestingly, the adult molt (when a bird loses it’s flight feathers) takes place during the summer and lasts for about 25-40 days. The adults regrow their flight feathers are about the same time the goslings grow theirs. Next spring, the geese will migrate to the same area they were born and the young ones will join flocks with other young geese. They will begin to reproduce when they are two or three years old. In a healthy environment Canada Geese can live for twenty-five years.

Jockeying for position under mom’s tail-feather umbrella, these goslings are likely weathering their first storm at just a few days old. When the goslings are born they are bright yellow with a dark beak, looking more like baby ducks. They are able to swim as soon as they are born and the adults will lead them to safety in open waters. As the weeks pass, their yellow down darkens and changes to gray. By nine weeks old their plumage has significantly changed and their flight feathers have grown in, and they begin to look more like adult birds with a jet-black head and neck, white cheeks and chinstrap, tan breast, and brown back. Interestingly, the adult molt (when a bird loses it’s flight feathers) takes place during the summer and lasts for about 25-40 days. The adults regrow their flight feathers are about the same time the goslings grow theirs.

Next spring, the geese will migrate to the same area they were born and the young ones will join flocks with other young geese. They will begin to reproduce when they are two or three years old. In a healthy environment Canada Geese can live for twenty-five years.

Migrating Canada Geese make their Noisy Return!

I have a new article published on the MNN network if you care to give it a look-see (and maybe some love?) :-)

http://bit.ly/IoMYEN

Yes is says I am the New Hampshire correspondent…even though I live in Montreal. :-)

Goose channeling Julie Andrews.    The hills are alive…..

Goose channeling Julie Andrews.    The hills are alive…..

What goslings are thinking: Mom, please don’t toot…please don’t toot…please don’t toot…

What goslings are thinking:

Mom, please don’t toot…please don’t toot…please don’t toot…

Dear Followers I would gladly let you hide under my tail feathers if we were caught out on the rainy marsh together…

Dear Followers

I would gladly let you hide under my tail feathers if we were caught out on the rainy marsh together…

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” ~ Lewis Carroll

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”

~ Lewis Carroll

njwight: GORTEX footwear. “Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving.  And movement is life.”  ~Carrie Latet Standing still in slush, however…

njwight:

GORTEX footwear.

“Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving.  And movement is life.”  ~Carrie Latet

Standing still in slush, however…


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