For much of July, our Goose family has been taking wing and flying off to other parts of Loudoun County, Virginia for days at a time. Until early August they’d been gone for a week. Now they are back for a while.
These photos were taken mostly in May. Now in June, the six surviving “babies” are “teenagers.” They have all their feathers and markings and are beginning to flex their flight muscles during land and water calisthenics.