First and most important, thanks to all who commented on my brother-in-law’s death yesterday. I know that the GG and his family greatly appreciate your comments.

Just because I have the iBird app on my iPhone and have been known to engineer an outing to watch the songbird migration at Magee Marsh doesn’t mean I’m a birder. (Okay, that little expotition involved the GG and me so not much actual organizing involved.) I am not a birder. I think I’ve written about that before. I’m not sure exactly why I’m not a birder. I am certainly nerdy/geeky enough to be one. Lists and data bases and all that stuff. When it comes to nature, I think that I sort of prefer to experience it as a whole. That doesn’t mean that I don’t occasionally get side-tracked by some detail or other.

But today, a bunch of us old bags on my work’s Geriatric Team decided toward the end of today to schedule an impromptu meeting. We didn’t need to reserve a conference room. Our meeting was scheduled to be outside. My boss just waved his hand in the air at us. “Get outta here, I can’t herd cats.” Or something like that. So, we were walking along down by the pond and there were Mr. and Mrs. Goose. Big as life. Honking up a storm. Staking out their nesting area. I could only get so close.

The geese actually returned yesterday. Yes. Yesterday. I wish I had noted the date that they left last fall but I didn’t. Even though I saw them leave then. Some of them. They don’t all leave. Anyway, they’re back. I have worked in my office for over two years now and I often walk the nature trail at lunch and, during the last year, I actually started to understand the life cycle of the Canada Goose. I will never be a true birder and I know that Canada Geese may not be the most interesting birds to study, since they are all over everywhere and can be regarded as a nuisance. But I think I have watched the whole cycle now. Although, I didn’t note when they arrived last year. Sigh.

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