The Geese Are Flying!

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y to fly up to Canada. Why part of the population stays here and the others migrate, I don’t know. I’m not an ornithologist.</p><p id="eed0">Around here it is the geese who announce when springtime is officially beginning. After a long winter of huddling around whatever water isn’t frozen, the migrating geese need to build up their strength for their long flight north. So they take off in very large groups and fly in big looping circles over our little quiet town, day and night.</p><p id="c230">You can be blissfully walking down the street when suddenly you hear them. They are approaching from behind. You stop and turn around and there in the sky above is a formation of 2 or 3 or 4 hundred geese; each and every one of them honking with all their might. It’s kind of like a jumbo jet flying very low overhead — and is almost as loud. It is truly joyful music.</p><p id="47ab">Some of these huge formations of geese are so loud that they can be heard even if you’re indoors with windows closed. They can be heard from a few miles away. I really like hearing them with the windows open flying over my home just as I’m going to sleep. Or waking up.</p><p id="8286">I have developed quite a fondness for Canada geese over the 8 years I’ve been living in their territory. Seeing them flying the last few days has made me very, very happy. The birds are telling me that there is indeed light at the end of the tunnel; that winter will

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The geese are flying!

For the first time this year every single window in my home is wide open. I can barely contain my joy!

I fantasize about living in a place where I can leave my windows open all year.

Yesterday, over the course of just a couple of hours the temperature here shot up by almost 50 degrees (Fahrenheit). It was a little freaky. Then yesterday evening it began raining and it kept raining until noon today. It has finally stopped but the sky is still gray. The air flowing in through my opened windows has been scrubbed clean by 18 consecutive hours of quasi-torrential rain and I am trying to suck up as much of it as I can into my lungs.

Tomorrow we’re supposed to have a snowstorm.

With the windows open most of my houseplants are currently in a state of euphoria just as I am. A few of them, though, are a little confused (just as I am).

The big news I want to share is that the geese are flying! There are between 2,500 and 3,000 Canada geese who winter on the little lakes south of town. In summer there are only about 500. It is in spring that the migrating population gets ready to fly up to Canada. Why part of the population stays here and the others migrate, I don’t know. I’m not an ornithologist.

Around here it is the geese who announce when springtime is officially beginning. After a long winter of huddling around whatever water isn’t frozen, the migrating geese need to build up their strength for their long flight north. So they take off in very large groups and fly in big looping circles over our little quiet town, day and night.

You can be blissfully walking down the street when suddenly you hear them. They are approaching from behind. You stop and turn around and there in the sky above is a formation of 2 or 3 or 4 hundred geese; each and every one of them honking with all their might. It’s kind of like a jumbo jet flying very low overhead — and is almost as loud. It is truly joyful music.

Some of these huge formations of geese are so loud that they can be heard even if you’re indoors with windows closed. They can be heard from a few miles away. I really like hearing them with the windows open flying over my home just as I’m going to sleep. Or waking up.

I have developed quite a fondness for Canada geese over the 8 years I’ve been living in their territory. Seeing them flying the last few days has made me very, very happy. The birds are telling me that there is indeed light at the end of the tunnel; that winter will finally end soon.

How can anyone live without windows or birds?

Here are a couple of totally unrelated stories: