These dramatic goose and swan flights make me think -- how many people in
the DC area heard these geese and looked up? Some folks have gotten so
removed from nature that they not recognize (or perhaps, even hear) what to
our ancestors was one of the first harbingers of spring.

Gail Mackiernan
Colesville, MD

on 03/11/2010 8:40 AM, Carol Jelich at  wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Tuesday afternoon, March 9, the Canada geese on Quarter Creek, off Wye
> River, were very vocal.  Around 5:30, late afternoon, they began to rise up,
> circle,
> and form lines, heading north.  As I watched them begin their fly away, I
> could see far, far above, other lines of geese headed north that had started
> from elsewhere.  Wished them godspeed and safe return next
> year, a very moving sight!
> 
> Carol Jelich
> Queenstown, Maryland