Big gaggle finally showed up on the river!

[elleng]

River is on west side of the house; creek (and osprey nest) are EAST.













Sunset sneaking in.




UP! UP! (I rarely catch ANY birds in flight; LUCKY evening.)

[Walleye]

1. I love them!

[SheltieLover]

2. Gorgeous!

Ty, Ellen!

[Bayard]

3. Very cool!

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. Yesterday, I saw the largest flying formation of Canada Geese, than I've seen in 30 or 40 years.

Maybe 300. They were flying East, not South. Odd.

[elleng]

5. WOW!

EAST of Maine???!!! Wassup??? Heading to New Brunswick???

[OAITW r.2.0]

8. They've acclimated to Maine's weather.

They like it here now. Probably ain't helping their flying/navigation skills.

[Grasswire2]

6. I live on a river bank in PNW.

Canada Geese are here all year, and residential. But many more fly through on migration and that leads to great honking day and night.

[elleng]

7. Neat!

Hi, partner, you'n me on river banks.

[Grasswire2]

9. exactly

3,000 or so miles apart

There was a little scattered ice on the river here this morning.

[elleng]

10. No ice here today, and forecast for tomorrow:

SUNNY and hi 73!!! (HOWEVER: forecast for DC, 60 miles north of me here: Fleeting warmth: Soak up the 70s Thursday. Reality will return with a cold front late. Thursday will probably be the last day in the 70s for some time. It looks as though we may end up cooler than normal on the whole for the rest of the month, in addition to storm chances around Thanksgiving. The city might even flirt with a freezing low this weekend. The average first at- or below-freezing morning in our current climate was today, Nov. 17.)

Actually river froze a few years ago; I don't recall when. It's a major river: 'The Patuxent River is a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay in the state of Maryland. . .It is the largest and longest river entirely within Maryland, and its watershed is the largest completely within the state.'