June 25th The Goslings Story

People have asked me to tell the goslings story again...so here goes, the short version. Maybe first you want to click the above 'flash movie' (and then double click again) to see what this is about.....

Here's the story ... last May (that's 6-7 weeks ago), heavy rains, flooded rivers overflowing their banks, roads covered with "feet's" of water (OK, there's a new way to use that word). The studio here was closed, which meant we were out checking the water damage if not trying to move water out of the basement (not many vounteers for the 'moving' job).

Anyway, we're filming the over-flowing water, the flooded roads, and we also catch two geese floating by .... first to the right, with the current, then later, to the left, against the flow. Seemed odd, but we were soaked by then & moving to higher ground.

A day or so later, the waters recede some, the roads open, some fields by the river are still flooded, like little lakes, and that's were we see the two geese with their new family - the goslings- swimming in the'field' (which is now asmall lake)....at first, just two, but later some believed there were four total.

Of course we went back to our earlier flood footage of the two geese...and sure enough, if you look closely, you can see they're 'escorting' two to four goslings at a time.....goslings we did not know were there when we first filmed the geese.
That was a good catch--shots we didn't know we had---and had we known what we were filming, we likely would have held the camera steadier.