Geese are crazy????

[mrs.oroblanco]

We are here in South Dakota, cold and windy, snow showers - and batch after batch after batch of geese are flying north!

Are they insane? There is no body of water that way of any significance - could it be an early spring coming?

I think I posted the same thing last year, and we really had an early, decent spring - but 2 years in a row?

Anyone else seen geese going north?


B

 

[Montana Jim]

You need to trust the geese...

When you look to the sky this fall and see the geese migrating South (or north! LOL), remember the following lessons they teach us:

When you see geese flying in a "V" formation, you might be interested in knowing what scientists have discovered about why they fly that way.

As each bird flaps its wings it creates an uplift for the bird immediately following. By flying in a "V" formation, the whole flock adds at least 71 percent greater flying range than if each bird flew on its own.

People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier because they are traveling on the trust of one another.

Whenever a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of trying to go it alone and quickly gets back into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the bird immediately in front.

There is strength and power and safety in numbers when traveling in the same direction with whom we share a common goal.

When the lead goose gets tired, he rotates back in the wing and another goose flies point.

It pays to take turns doing hard jobs.

The geese honk from behind to encourage those up front to keep up their speed.

We all need to be remembered with active support and praise.

When a goose gets sick or is wounded and falls out, two geese fall out of formation and follow him down to help and protect him. They stay with him until the crisis resolves, and then they launch out on their own or with another formation to catch up with their group.

We must stand by each other in times of need.

 

[mrs.oroblanco]

Interesting information!

Also, have you ever noticed that geese fly with one side of the V a little longer than the other?

Do you know why that is?

Scientists have discovered that it is because there are more geese in the longer side of the "V".

I really want to trust them - they started yesterday (but only 2 or 3 gaggles). Today, it was one right after the other. Maybe they are confused by the January thaw? Hope not!

I like seeing geese going NORTH.

B

 

[Montana Jim]

Scientists have discovered that it is because there are more geese in the longer side of the "V".

LOL...

 

[crazyjarhead]

No, but we can't get rid of them in Ohio. Whatever happened that geese don't fly south like they used to 40-50 years ago

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

Flying North

Not flying South.


I need to trust the geese

all have a good un......
SHERMANVILLE

 

[Montana Jim]

Geese spend all winter here in Montana... they fly South from Canada and I guess we are south enough for some of them.

It's the pelicans that come and go with the seasons here.

 

[mrs.oroblanco]

These were definitely going north.

Depending on where you live (I think), some Northern Geese will fly south INTO the states from Canada and other norther places, so you still have geese even though the ones that live at your place go south.

We have an area where geese winter over - its a resevoir that never seems to freeze up in the middle part - I think they were coming from there going north. Last year they left early, too - but, I was looking at last years calender, and it was in early February, not January. (I write just about everything down, either in journals or on my calendars - my memory is good - but its short).

B

 

[lonesomebob]

I love to watch them land on slick ice. They slip slide spin around honk up a storm then fall into the water. Then they paddle like h to help keep the hole open.