We’re seeing quite a few flying wedges of Canada Geese lately, a perennial harbinger of spring that usually produces more honking than a New York City traffic jam. Here’s one headed north yesterday that appeared and passed over me before I could get a decent “shot”:
A better look at their winged beauty can be seen in this Leighton Archive image of them rising from as local pond:
Leighton Archives Image
The Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) is our largest goose and one of our most American birds, perhaps the best known and most widely distributed waterfowl on the North American continent. Climate warming has resulted in increasing numbers of these geese overwintering in Maine and producing young that are non-migratory. However, we still see and hear many of these loudmouths on their way north to their namesake country. (Primary image taken in Brooklin, Maine, on March 25, 2023.)