It is that time of the year again. Over the past week, I have noticed the birds 'practicing'. About a week ago they were beginning to congregate in groups...nothing orgainized, nothing planned. They just had the urge.
A few days ago I was able to notice an enormous flock of birds...beginning to form the "V". It was very disorganized....a bunch were still at the front of the flock...and then an arm of birds about half a mile long (no kidding) were attempting to fly in a straight line, each one overlapping one wing. And then I noticed a straggler. He was totally out of the loop, trying to get into the disjointed line.
At the same time, closer to me, was a tiny flock of geese, maybe ten or twelve altogether. And they were doing a fairly well-done "V". I made a joke to myself that the closer ones must be the Wascana geese and that they had had lots of practice since they weren't going anywhere and were only going out to the farmer's field and back.
Yesterday a flock flew over. It was a perfect formation.
I guess practice makes perfect. I guess that is our nature.
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