The Snow Geese Have Arrived!

I was so excited by the arrival of the Snow Geese during last year's migration that I eagerly watched for them this year. The Canada Geese had been passing overhead for a full month but I saw no sign of the magnificent Snow Geese. Not, that is, until one morning when I looked out my bathroom window and saw three flocks flying past the morning moon upon a clear blue sky. They are magnificent birds - and no, this is not my photo. It's from the internet:

But the Snow Geese arrived in the corn stubble across the road from the farm house the very next day. It's hard to miss them with the infernal racket they make, sounding like the flying monkeys in "The Wizard Of Oz:"

 

I walked across the road, camera in hand and of course they saw me and began lifting off:

 They circled around and landed again, just a little farther from me than they were before:

  And this is why they love this field. Tons of spilled corn:

 Boogy, the neighbors' horse, watched me intently. I walked over and petted him but didn't offer him any corn as they'd already told me he didn't like it:

 And then I walked back across the road to my house:

I took two short videos of the amazing Snow Geese. They look a little like a swarm of locusts in flight. There are darker birds mixed in which are probably Canadians, but Snow Geese also have a gray phase, so some may have been that. In the air, they all sometimes look dark but their white coloration becomes apparent again when they drop below the dark trees or the light hits them from a new angle:


The arrival of the Snow Geese will, I hope, be an annual event here in the north country which I can enjoy every year, at least as long as that field is planted in corn (sometimes it's a hay field):