Hello! Still here!
I have taken many pictures of snow geese over the past few years. They hang out in our town throughout the colder, damper months. They eat schoolyards. They poop on them. I have explained this many times in this blog (click on the "snow geese" label for previous posts).
Today I found a first--a dismembered snow goose in a schoolyard. A partial snow goose. A hemi-goose. It's perhaps a good thing that I didn't have a decent camera with me. I also didn't even have one of our i-Things with me, useful gadgets with decent built-in cameras. All I had was a venerable Samsung flip-phone. It has a camera feature, but it really isn't a camera. Thus you are spared the gory bits. (There were some.)
I don't know who got the goose. This was in the field behind Blundell Elementary, for those who know this town. There was a bald eagle flapping around, being harassed by crows and gulls. He's my bet, the way the goose had been consumed in situ. A coyote would have trotted away with it.
More snow goosery later, no doubt.
3 comments:
1. yay for low-res photos of nature gore. While I am a biologist, and have been paid to try and identify small pieces of skin that I scrape off the highway, I am a sensitive creature. Probably why I'm a conservation biologist. A sap. So, PHEW!
2. I can't believe you used "fewer." *happysigh* THANK YOU!!!
I'm an advocate of "fewer." I get angry at the express line sign at the grocery store: "8 items or less." No! 8 items or FEWER!
Twitter: say it in 140 characters or FEWER!
*sigh*
Hearty belly laugh of the grammatically gratified. Hooray!
I also like "seldom" but hear it, uh, infrequently.
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