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Thursday, August 31, 2017

Ogden Water Theme Park

Canada geese as you,ve never seen them before.

                                       63 Canadas in to land


                                         Time to start bathing
















                                        All done, drying off time
                                                        A shoreline full of geese.

With an invasion of wildfowl imminent it was off to Ogden late afternoon to check it out.
                                                                 A bright afternoon on a light NW>4 but spoilt with the sunshine causing reflections on the water.  All was quiet with just the usual gulls, Mallards and 2 Cormorants until I was walking through passerine alley when a noise like a jet plane came overhead and a skein of 63 Canada geese dropped low over the trees and onto the water.
                                                                  The sight and sound was amazing as they split into 3 groups and started bathing completely submersing themselves them coming up with wings flapping sending spray high into the air. I was at the wrong side for the sun but this did me a favour highlighting the water showering round them. This went on for 15 minutes building up quite a captive audience around the water with everyone stopping to watch the spectacle. One fella near me even clapped when the show was over.
The geese then calmly headed onto the shore to preen and dry off. In 50 years of birding I,ve never seen anything like this before, amazing. Even Canadas can save the day.
 BS