Ted and I saw an unusual sight this evening.  He was watering in the back yard and I was doing dishes at the sink, overlooking the back yard when a gaggle of geese came running through our lawn!  We think there must have been at least 40 of them in a tight group and they were really moving!  They ran across our lawn and into Steve’s yard (behind ours), moving to our left.  When they reached the barrier of Tom’s fence (the next neighbor on the left), they did a quick about-face and ran around Steve’s house to the front instead, still moving as quickly as they could on foot.

Fireworks were going off at the time, and most of the people who live around the lake where the geese live all year usually shoot fireworks over the lake.  Ted and I think the geese were scared and were heading for another lake in the subdivision.  (They often fly low over our house going from lake to lake.  No need to go to full altitude for such a short distance!)  Fireworks have been going off like crazy in our subdivision for the past few evenings, so we suspect the geese decided it was too dangerous to take to the air and chose to use a land route, looking for refuge in a different lake.

It was pretty funny to see so many geese so huddled together and moving so quickly on foot!