Yesterday GC, The Dog and I were wandering around the Arboretum at the Experimental Farm, when a huge flock of migrating Canada Geese flew overhead. They just kept coming and coming and coming. We stood there in awe for a minute or two, mesmerized by the endless stream of honking geese. And then I suddenly clicked back into reality, grabbed my camera and started taking pictures.
“A picture won’t capture it,” said GC, “use video!”
This was a much better idea, but by the time I had fumbled with my camera and found the video setting and figured out how to start recording, most of the geese had passed. The video shows only the tail end, but I think it’ll still give you a pretty good idea of how awesome a spectacle it was. (Make sure your speakers are on for this one.)
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very cool
Oh Wow!!!!
I would not have had my camera with me, never mind being able to figure out how to do a video! I know, I’m giving away my age. You remind me to put my camera in my purse and learn how to film a video. And I agree with nursemyra an:d Carmen “Oh wow, cool!”
In junior high, we were given a book to read called The Snow Goose (I think that was the title). It was set during WWII in Canada(?) I would love to read it again, but no amount of Googling and searching library catalogues has turned up the title.
In the end of the story, fishermen go off to rescue soldiers from the beaches of Normandy??? A loved one calls out to one of the brave fishermen, “God Speed”.
It’s all so fuzzy in my memory, but every fall when I see the geese and it is near to Remembrance Day, I think of this book and how touched I was by the story. Does anyone know of this book? (Your post made me think of it too)
Zoom, that is the largest flying buffet I have ever seen. Thank you!
And Woodsy, the book was indeed called The Snow Goose, a novella written by an American author, Paul Gallico. It was set on the coast of England, just prior to the Battle of Dunkirk, and published in 1940. It inspired an award-winning 1971 movie starring Richard Harris and Jenny Agutter, and a concept album by an obscure Brit prog-rock band called Camel.
Way more than anybody really wanted to know, right?
Thanks everyone – this was one of those things that made me very happy I always have a camera with me. I’ve lived here pretty much all my life, and I’ve never seen this many geese at once.
Coyote, good work reconnecting Woodsy with her goose roots! If I had special powers, I’d give you wings.
Looks a lot like Regina does at times because of Wascana Lake.