We geese are climbing stairs and it ain’t easy for us!
What do you entitled human think?
That stairs are made for you?
Not hardly! We geese have places to go and ducks to see.
What? Now you’re feeding ducks?
What about us?
Silly human, don’t you know?
Treats are for geese~
Cheers to you from the confident geese, handsome ducks, and cluelessly entitled human.
Love these birds on a mission Cindy!
I’m telling you, you gotta move out of their way!
Nice I like them , Cindy.
Knew you would Ranu and they like you too! <3
Beautiful photographs!
Mil grazi~
Unbelievably beautiful.
Awwww, I’m happy for the ducks and geese that you think so!
Nice series. Geese are silly. They don’t need to climb steps, they can fly up them. They are just showing off. We used to have ducks and geese and various farm animals. Back a long, long time ago, we had this mean old gander that liked to sneak up on people and pinch them. One day, Laurie’s sister was bending over trying to see a raccoon hiding under a stump, and that old goose snuck up on her and gave her a good goosing. We laughed and laughed, and I don’t think Laurie’s sister has ever forgiven us for not telling her that old goose was sneaking up on her.
Geese have ‘tudes big time! My kids were repeatedly chased by a highly agitated goose in Colorado. They called her Hissy as in, let’s go watch Hissy have a fit! 😉
This was so sweet, Cindy. I can just imagine the attitude the ducks and geese give you. The special way you cherish all creatures comes across in all you photograph and write about, too. The one i liked the best was with blue details, how unusual!
So kind of you my friend, and yep I love all creatures great and small!
Very busy and demanding aren’t they 😛
Yes! They remind me of my second grade teacher!
And for me my grade 5 teacher lol
Totally charming, Cindy….you’re right about goose attitude. We have Canada geese who like to gang up for a procession crossing a busy street so all the tired people trying to get to or from work have to stop…traffic stops, backs up and the geese take their sweet time crossing. A good Zen moment, actually…slow down, breathe, watch geese meander across the road……
Nothing better than that is there! Watching geese take over the world just seem so RIGHT! 😉
Awww they made my heart smile. I love geese and ducks. Great shots of these characters.
And the goslings and duckings are coming very soon! Irresistable……
Oh, they are so cute. I have not seen geese so colorful as they are here. The ones are round here are just brown, grey and white mostly.
They come in so many colors, shapes and sizes!
Bigger or smaller? I am curious. I only see one size around here.
I am no expert but one of the smallest in North America may be the Ross’s goose, and one of the largest, the Emden male goose. One male weighed in at 28 pounds! They are a tad aggressive too, so that is one big goose with a ‘tude!
Ha, never get in the way of a goose!
Beautiful birds, I esp. love the duck with the blue feet – such an exotic! Do you know what type it was? Your photos are so great in detail – I never noticed before that their feet close up when stepping.
I am guessing, not certain, that it is a White Faced Whistling Duck. Do you know? If not, someone will surely enlighten us……
That’s it! From S.America and Africa. A beautiful creature!
They really are sweet and lovely!
Move -over… I can see that attitude. 🙂 Good looking ducks and geese, gorgeous colors! Great photos, Cindy!
Never stand in the way of a gaggle of geese and their destination!
Oh, no… 🙂
<3
Hi Cindy,
They can be so colourful.
Leslie
Comical, cute and colorful!
Awesome writing. The geese are like gold and silver. And the expression of the geese to go with the words. Stunning!
Awwwww, you are such a kind blogging friend!
Oh yes, geese are very territorial! ٩(˘◡˘)۶
And I know to follow their clear directives!
Never argue with a goose!
Not me! No way!
Yep, as your photos and others’ stories here describe, geese sure have a strong presence! Been surrounded by them near a pond before when they came up to us while we were enjoying some snacks. You *know* what they want, ha ha!
They’re a delight to watch of course. I watched a group of them passively allow fast river currents to propel them towards a small waterfall, and they harnessed the river’s force into an easy take-off at the edge before the fall… It was clear that this was a playful activity for them!
Oh wow, that must have been amazing to see! I am fascinated watching birds aerodynamic play. They have so much fun harnessing wind drafts and here you saw them harnessing water currents as well. Wonderful!
Quite an entertaining story to go with the nice photos! I have also learned to step aside for geese :-).
It is an imperative lesson to learn!
Stunning!
Mil grazi!
Beautiful. Thanks. I love ducks (and geese.)
That, makes two of us! <3
Greats hots of these lovable characters. Love ducks and geese.
They are remarkable and I love lovers of ducks and geese! <3
Classy narration and accompanying photos, Cindy. 🐥🐥
Awww, thank you ma’am & cheers to you too!
I swear it looks like a painting of a duck…
Smiling, that is so encouraging! Thank you~
Look at it closely, it looks like a painting… Amazing
Awwwww, so kind!
Cheers to you too Cindy! And to your lucky ducks and geese. 🙂
Visa versa X 2 2 U Dor! <3
Cindy, thanks for sharing these lovely geese and duck images. Hugs! Veraiconica
Hugs back to you & cheers too Veraiconica! <3
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This is wonderful and the pictures are fantastic. Love this post.
Awwww, you are such a good blogging friend!
goose–goose-duck! Amazing photos–just amazing–and fuuUUUn captions! 🙂
The goose are quite grateful that at least one human knows the proper order of things!
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So thoughtful of you and most appreciated. Cheers to you my friend~
Fabulous photographs of a lovely subject. Have a good weekend. 🙂
I am quite pleased that you enjoyed the feathered quackers and honkers!
Nice pics… our geese down at the lake are used to plenty people and are very relaxed, when it comes to people 🙂
The swans are a different cattle of fish – grin
Ah yes, swan personalities would require an entire, separate post!
This is beautiful and the pictures are wonderful 🙂
Awwww so thoughtful & most appreciated! <3
So beautiful! How wonderful 😀
Completely endearing creatures aren’t they, and the chicks haven’t even arrived yet!
Awesome and humorous post! I love that you can see the water droplets on their chest feathers! It’s so cool they aren’t afraid to come up so close to you! Beautiful pics! Hugz and Happy Friday! Lisa and Bear
I like seeing the water droplets too. You can see how water repellant their oil covered feathers really are. Happy Weekend Lisa!
Wonderful, excellent captured… 🙂
Awwwww, so kind!
There’s something immensely endearing about ducks and geese, possibly because they look so ungainly on land.
It is flat out wonderful to hear from you and I know you & I are both quite fond of the paddling ones! Have a lovely weekend my friend~
I miss my friend Imogen. She and I used to go with her mum to feed the ducks on the local pond. She was about 18 months old at the time. She was still my friend. Even now I sign off emails to her mum, ‘Quack quack.’
My husband says quack so much that I gave him a t-shirt with a duck on it, that says, “Shut the Duck Up.” Needless to say, he pays me back by wearing it. It’s a good shirt for sorting through people though. Some people look appalled and away (phooey on them) and others look amused and add commentary, “What duck?” Where’s the duck?” etc…….
Wunderschöne Fotos wünsche einen schönen Tag und ein gutes und schönes Wochenende liebe Grüße und Freundschaft Gislinde
Vielen dannke Gislinde! Frohliche wochenende mein lieber! <3
Cindy, it looks like pictures have been done by some of these ducks. Foreshorten and close-up are great. Nicely done. I love it.
So happy you do and Happy Friday!
Beautiful. What species are they? The mallard we see around the NE but the others are unfamiliar. 😀
Considering I am no expert, I am tentatively identifying these guys as white faced whistling ducks, bar headed goose, swan goose, and female comb duck. If I am wrong someone will hopefully help us out with my guesses……
Thanks. I took out my bird book yesterday and was unable to identify a few of the ducks I saw so I totally understand not always being able to put a name to them. They are beautiful no matter what we call them.
Nice shots. There is nothing a like a peccadillo to attract my interest. 🙂
Yes, nothing quite as cute as an odd duck! You are very clever Graham! Love it~
aw shucks. (I wonder what that means).
It’s Yankee for thank you~
Wonderful photos of wonderful ducks. Thank you and have a nice weekend 🙂
Back 2 U x 2 my friend~
I love this! So adorable! <3
They are cute and clumsy on land and elegant in the water!
Love this collection Cindy – the close-ups and look on their faces. Great little hams for the camera.
I swear I think they were posing! 😉
Cute geese. I think they do an easier job of it (going up stairs) than this human with one bad knee, one artificial knee and arthritis. 🙂
Ouch! You have my empathy. Just reading this sounds painful~ <3
They’re so beautiful, Cindy — especially the one with BLUE feet!! I so admire your ability to get up close and personal with critters like these!!
This is basically all I did as a kid and it is so much fun to have a second shot at childhood joy!
Gorgeous photos, Cindy!
Merci beaucoup mon ami!
I don’t know French, but that sounds so pretty! 🙂
Thank you very much my dear! <3
Love the narrative to go with these lovely photos!
Very happy you do & happy weekend too!
adoro le oche…sono buffissime, bellissime e tanto chiaccherone!!!
Ahhh, muchas gracias mi amable amiga! <3
It’s always so hard being fair when feeding waterfowl. Whenever I’ve some homemade bread left over (lucky birds), I go to feed the ducks and moorhens in the local park. Usually, I make sure the bread is in crumbs, rather than in chunks, otherwise the seagulls come swooping down and steal it all. They don’t seem to bother with crumbs. My dog enjoys the fallout and is more interested in this than chasing the birds.
One thing I love seeing when I travel is all the people who feed the birds. In Brugge there was a couple who went round to all the restaurants at close of day on bicycle and collected left over bread. They peddled over to the canals and fed the swans. They did this every night I was there. God Bless the bird feeders everywhere!
This is a cosy post and they all look very cute <3 I can almost feel how they bobbing over the doorstep. Thanks for the greeting 🙂 🙂
They do walk into buildings which I find hilarious. I think they may just be curious!
Lovely…the first one almost seem like he/she are crawlig out of the photo and into my livingroom
I am sure she would be right at home there!
She’s very welcome 🙂
Amazing beautiful post Cindy 😀
Awwww, so kind!
You deserve it Cindy 😀
<3
Adorable post, Cindy!
I love when I go down to the lake, and the seagulls are swimming in with the geese and ducks, pretending “I’m a duck, I’m a goose!”
Then when the first morsel of food hits the water, it’s pandemonium and the seagull shows its true feathers, gets the bit and takes off.
2 mins later… “I’m a duck, I’m a goose”! is back.
Seagulls are hilarious, rapacious and quite intelligent. There is a fancy hotel near where I grew up. Silver napkin rings went missing for decades from the al fresco tables. The old hotel bell tower was rennovated recently and they found a huge stash of napkin rings in it. Pilfered by the seagulls because, well, only the seagulls know. Revenge possibly!
Glorious post, Cindy. Do the geese get feisty? I usually avoid geese as a rule because they are aggressive. Love feeding ducks, though. All of your birds are gorgeous.
No these guys were mellow, althoug I too have seen my share of feisty geese. Some people use them as guard geese!
Beautiful!!! Love the one with the blue feet!!! Handsome duck 😊
Aren’t they beautiful. They are called White Faced Whistlers, although I have never heard a whistle!
Cluelessly entitled…hmm…they might be right about us. Awesome birds pictured by an ever so creative photographer!
So kind of you and yep, I think they had me accurately pegged! 😉
That would be me too 🙂
Im moving over …. yep!
Oh good! I would love your company!
You are so kind!
Actually that would be you. Rock on kind ones! Love to you Sheri~
You make me smile my soul sister Holler Haven friend 💫💫💫
<3 <3
Liebe Cindy deine Fotos sind wieder einmalig schön ganz toll einen schönen glücklichen Samstag wünsche ich dir und sei ganz lieb in Freundschaft gegrüßt Klaus
Danke, dass Sie meinen guten Freund Klaus und genieBen Sie Ihr Wochenende !
ist ja schön, alles Gute, Klaus
Vielen danke und Frohliche Wochenende Klaus~
danke sehr
Not sure about hand feeding the ducks… don’t think I would want to come into such close contact with that duck bill… looks like it could snap off a finger! Really great photos.
My husband prefers observation too, but I am a hand feed the birds person whenever possible! Never ever been nipped or scratched……
Reminds me of that great song, “Don’t you step on my blue suede webbed feet!” 🙂
Laughing! Plu-perfect!
Certainly worth some goose stepping! Or goosey goosey gander where do you wander. And something about ‘ my ladies chamber! Great photos.
Laughing…..no wonder there are so many nursery rhymes about them. They have such distinct personalities. Don’t you love the way their feet collapse as they step up the stairs!
Yes, amazing creatures.
<3
Great looking ducks and geese. My only question is why walk when you can fly? 🙂 –Curt
I think it was to clarify who has the right of way!
Laughing— I watch nature everyday, as you do Cindy. Someone is always trying to determine who has the right-of-way. BTW, this isn’t relevant to the conversation but it is neat. The neighborhood dogs howl in unison every morning. It’s quite striking. Recently they have been joined by the wild turkeys that live on our property. Woof, woof, woo, gobble, gobble, gobble. 🙂 –Curt
Oh my gosh, if we added our coyotes and cattle, it would be a true symphony! I would particularly like to hear the turkey gooble section of the symphony!
My reader is full of interesting ducks this week. Strange coincidence–or is it some kind of convergance?
It is duck synchronicity! Power to the ducks…….and geese of course!
Hmmm … that looks like kitty kibble! Anyway, birds don’t mind what it is. The robins that visit our front porch have kitty kibble too (including chicken and turkey flavors).
🙂
Ducks and geese are omnivores. They eat bugs and worms in addition to plants and grains. Robins I imagine eat grains and worms/bugs? Duck and geese pellets are probably somewhat similar to kitty pellets albeit with more grains, but I am no expert and am just guessing here…..
Ich finde deinen schön beschriebenen Gänseausflug einfach herrlich anzusehen, liebe Cindy. Ganz tolle Aufnahmen. Habe eine gute Zeit. Ernst
Ich bin so froh, dass Sie die Ganse genossen mein Freund! Ich liebe sie , weil sie uns Menschen in unserem richtigen Stelle und lassen Sie uns nicht das Gefuhl zu sich selbst wichtig! Glucklich Sonntag Ernst~
beautiful !! Did you know that when a goose gets injured in flight, at least two other geese will follow it down and stay with it.
No, I had no idea, but that is truly wonderful. Birds are loyal~
Was that blue-footed bird actually a duck? It is my dream to get to the Galapagos and see the blue-footed booby…Beautiful pics as always Cindy!
Yes it is a white faced whistling duck! Quite a name I know. We saw boobies recently in Channel Islands National Park, two species, one not supposed to be there. Channel Islands reminds me a bit of the Galapagos although I haven’t been to the Galapagos. I hope you go and post your photos of the famous blue footed ones!
ver, very, very, very nice dear!
Why thank you!
Liebe Cindy, schönen Sonntag wünsche ich, Klaus
Danke, dass du mein Freund und ich wunsche Ihnen einen wundervollen Woche!
Woooowwww Beautiful Pictures, big thanks Cindy….💗💗💗
Very pleased you enjoyed them & cheers~
Incredible photographs, Cindy. I wowed the entire way through. The clarity is unbelievable! And I agree with Ann that the first goose looks like he is about to step right on my kitchen table. Great post!!! Love, Amy
He would probably walk over to to your frig, open the door and help himself! Very happy you enjoyed the web-footed ones! 😉
LOL
Oh, they are so funny!
They always crack me up!
Duck folks 🙂
Yes! Perfect!
Thanks for the smiles this morning. Nature at its finest.
When you smile, so do I!
Awwwww…
Oh dear! You have got Wolfie slavering and drooling! Great big fat confident geese….big healthy and handsome ducks… fill the Wolfie belly for many weeks to come! lol 😉 The excitement is overwhelming and self control is proving very elusive all of a sudden! HoooOOOOOooooOOOWWWWWWWWWWwwwwwwwwwWWWWWWLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!! Ohhh the call to the hunt! lol 😉
Laughing!! They are sooooo lazy. They never bother to fly. Wolfie would give them a nice in- flight aerobic experience!!! 😉 😉
Clearly you don’t know the password, that always gets ducks to give way. I’ll tell you for next time, so you can stand up for the whole human race of entitled duck overlords. “Foie Gras.” LOL
Laughing, I am thinking though, that entitled duck over lords might do a better job of running things than us humans! 😉 😉
LOL Possibly… we might all be speaking quack!
Well the political parties would be the ducks and the geese. I am voting goose, so I predict we will be learning honks~
I don’t think I am really able to differentiate geese from ducks.
Here in Indonesia, we only have swan goose, which is very obviously different from ducks.
When I see other types of goose on TV, I usually get confused and say: “wait a minute, that’s a goose? not a duck?”
😀
Laughing. They can be hard to tell apart, although their personalities are fairly distinct, goose being more assertive. Swan goose are beautiful. Heading over to your blog now Hari to see what you’ve been up too~
are lovely your pictures <3
Muchos gracias mi amiga!
The ducks and geese made me smile – and you’re a genius with captions Cindy 🙂
Awwww, your comment made me smile! Cheers to you Polly~
fantabulous!
Our web footed friends agree with you! 😉
Geese are nice until they poop in your yard,
Tis the season for us.
This year we’re going to try a semi-permanent border between our house & the retention pond behind us in hopes that the geese stay out of our yard. We’re not allowed to have fenced in property. So- will see how our low border gets by.
Yes geese and ducks can make quite a mess in your yard. I think the permanent border sounds like an excellent plan. Hope it works~
Beautiful photos and magnificent birds Cindy.
So pleased you are the web footed’s friend!
super cute pics 🙂
Happy you enjoyed them!
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Beautiful photo! Lovely details!
You rock my dear! Love your blog and so appreciate your kind heart! <3 <3
Thanks so very much! That means a lot to me!
🙂
Superb!
Awwwww…… ^^’
Lovely shots, Cindy! <3 🙂
So happy you enjoyed & cheers to you my friend! <3
Great shots:)
Mil grazi & cheers~
My boy enjoyed these guys. =) T noticed the feet under the water in that last shot. =) The things kids catch!
Kids see more than adults because they haven’t had to filter impressions yet. I love seeing the world through the eyes of a child! Tell your son I am happy he noticed this! He has an excellent eye for detail~
These geese are my favorite people! I just want to fly with the flock.
That is my prayer.
I am with you 100%! All we need is some fairy dust~ <3
Such cheeky chappies! 😀
That is just what they are! Don’t you just love it!
Love the photo’s , really beautiful 🙂
Awwww, you are very kiind and most appreciated!