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One autumn day my cousin (in Alberta) was watching 2 separate V's of Canada geese travelling in opposite directions. Apparently they weren't watching though as a couple of geese collided head on!
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I've seen V's going in different directions but I've never seen any geese collide. Can geese be embarrassed? 
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what ridiculous, anserine behavior.
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My Mom said they should have honked.
(and now you know where I get my sense of humor)
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HA! You silly goose, you!
(and now the extent of mine though tsuwm does win with his wordy one)
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Saw some geese Friday morning about 8:45. They were pointed west but they were moving north. There was a bit of a breeze out of the south.
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Quote:
Saw some geese Friday morning about 8:45. They were pointed west but they were moving north. There was a bit of a breeze out of the south.
Not to question your keen powers of observation, Faldage, but it is odd that a slight breeze could blow a bird as big as a goose ninety degrees off the direction that it was pointed.
I'd sooner believe that you took a wee morning nip against the damp bitter cold than believe that birds fly crooked.
But I'm no expert on birds or drinking. 
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Mebbe you don't keep up with the weather reports from Damyankia, but the slight breezes were on the close order of 50 mph. We had significant power outages across the area. Some New Englanders are still out of power. The geese were trying to fly west.
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Wow! Fifty miles an hour. When a wind that strong visits Dixieland we take Greyhound buses to excape. Faldage do you think it possible that the geese that you saw the other morning had been turned around 360 degrees by the wind and were trying to fly East instead of West?  Maybeso?
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Mayhap we can toss this datum in the holding tank and call it anomalous till we have more to work with.
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