Mikefule
Justified & Ancient
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This surprised me this morning.
I have spent much of my life around rivers, canals and lakes. I sail, I own an inflatable boat, I kayak, and I cycle along river banks and towpaths. I am used to seeing Canada geese either randomly dotted on the water, or on the bank, or flying overhead.
Today, I saw 17 Canada geese purposefully swimming along the canal in Nottingham, in "line astern": a very definite single file, and proceeding quite briskly as if they had to get somewhere definite. You can see their wakes in the pictures.
I stopped alongside intending to take photos and this broke up the rear of the formation as they seemed to think I was going to feed them. I then rode ahead and they reformed the line slightly less perfectly, and that is when I took these images.
I have spent much of my life around rivers, canals and lakes. I sail, I own an inflatable boat, I kayak, and I cycle along river banks and towpaths. I am used to seeing Canada geese either randomly dotted on the water, or on the bank, or flying overhead.
Today, I saw 17 Canada geese purposefully swimming along the canal in Nottingham, in "line astern": a very definite single file, and proceeding quite briskly as if they had to get somewhere definite. You can see their wakes in the pictures.
I stopped alongside intending to take photos and this broke up the rear of the formation as they seemed to think I was going to feed them. I then rode ahead and they reformed the line slightly less perfectly, and that is when I took these images.