My World Tuesday, Part 6

My World Texas,

Based in Ft. Worth, Texas

Today in Texas
Waiting for the Return
Of the winter birds

We are impatiently waiting for the return of the wintering birds here in North Texas.

Here are the last views back at the first of the year in Early Spring.

Where are those Geese and Goldfinches??????

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American Goldfinch
Our Back Yard


Snow Geese (with some blue forms)
and a few Ross's Geese
Hagarman Wildlife Refuge

Leave a comment if you have seen these wayward birds.

Troy and Martha

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Snow Geese

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The Line-Up.
Will the Guilty Goose Step Forward?

Farmer Brown says that eating in the cut grain fields is OK, but stay out of his wife's garden. If the guilt party doesn't step forward, he will start checking footprints and DNA from the feathers left behind at the scene of the crime in the garden.

Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens)

Photographed between Dallas and Marshall, Texas.
It was a cold, foggy February morning.
(Click on the line-up and scroll back and forth to view the guilty)

We watched them for a while, and they always stayed in a long tight line as they grazed along. They were lined up perfectly parallel to the wind direction. You know how a cold, damp East wind in early Spring will cut through you to the bone. Obviously, they put the toughest birds on the end to break the wind.

Notice the dark morphs which were once considered a separate species, the "Blue Goose".

Troy and Martha

Editors note to the Guilty Goose: "Don't do it, Farmer Brown's wife has something in mind concerning foie gras." Click here to see what it is and read some history of foie gras.

Posted for your viewing enjoyment and
for those visiting from Camera Critters.