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Crap just seen the first flock of geese flying south winter's coming Frown


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And we saw flocks in Sacramento Valley a week or so ago; that's a winter playground for those on the Pacific Flyway. Love to see and here them.


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ugh..not ready for snother NH winter!
 
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I know how you're feeling, I just had my lawn sprinklers blown out for winter.


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Good, or good riddance to them. Back to clean streets and parks. Too bad they're not edible or we could do what the DC folks did and kill 120 of them to feed to the homeless. Saved money and just maybe inspired the homeless to move along.


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Just saw this on Family Guy this past week:



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Ha! They never left here. 90 degrees today. Come on Fall!!!

RMD




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Just what are these Geese of which you speak? Even the mosquitoes have given up around here. There is a frost/hard freeze warning for tonight.

Minnesota. The nations ice box.

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There is a frost/hard freeze warning for tonight.
87 here today, 70 for the overnight low. More of the same for the rest of the week.



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There is a frost/hard freeze warning for tonight.
87 here today, 70 for the overnight low. More of the same for the rest of the week.


Yeah, I'll be over in about three months to crash on your couch. I've had enough of -30F to last a lifetime.

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yup, haven't seen a hummingbird for a solid week either here in NC



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Ha! They never left here. 90 degrees today. Come on Fall!!!

RMD


Same here! At one of the ponds where they hang out, there's one goose that has a missing leg, poor guy. Seems to get around okay though.

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I lived in the Chicago suburbs for many years and saw many migrations of geese. The migration I liked the most was the cranes. You could hear them from a long way off and they flew very high. They were unmistakable though and I thought quite cool..
 
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Just what are these Geese of which you speak? Even the mosquitoes have given up around here. There is a frost/hard freeze warning for tonight.

Minnesota. The nations ice box.

H&K-Guy


I was going through suburban Minneapolis about ten years ago (early December). There was a sewer treatment plant nearby with lots of Canada geese. I mentioned to the locals how I'd thought they would've migrated long ago, and was told they were permanent at such places. They guessed it was warmer water and something always edible (whether growing in the pond edges or scavenged). I'm not surprised in the sense that shit-water plants are really ideal bird habitat but rather how quickly they adapted.
 
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The geese are flying south

Smart birds.

There are places <<shudder>> that have already had white cold flaky stuff falling from the sky. What was it House Stark was always saying?
 
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I really hope the nasty things keep going farther south as we have 38 of the thing that took up residents in our small lake.
It started with one pair a dozen years back.
They feed in every yard around me and leave nice deposits everywhere.
My Lab gets two or three every year,I try to stop it but he is a hundred #'s and has drug me on several occasions ,skint hands, elbows and knees ,I hate these damn things
 
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and something always edible


I don't even remember eating corn.


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