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Re: Canada Geese on the move

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Leo Weigant

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Leo Weigant

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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:18:51 -0500

	All these reports prompted me to remember that
	~ somewhere in the 1850's ~ Walt Whitman, riding the
	Brooklyn Ferry, looked up and expressed almost exactly
	the same feelings we've been sharing as he watched them
	and heard their "wild ya-honk" cries in the evening light.

	We are not alone.

	Leo Weigant



On Mar 11, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Gail Mackiernan wrote:

> 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