Mark and I were walking over to the gym this afternoon when we were met by this incredible sight over the Amagansett town lot. Hundreds of wild geese advancing--doing what? Celebrating? Feeding? Exercising? Experiencing a collective mental episode? I switched on the video mode of my camera, and here you have it, my first YouTube, so please excuse the raggedy ending. (No, we weren't Tippi Hedrenized. I'd already thought I'd switched the camera off.)
7 comments:
amazing. i like the ending.
Goose calligraphy... airborne poetry.
How wonderful it must have been to be there, Paul - thank you for sharing the moment.
(cool shoes, too! ;-) )
The noise the geese make is astonishing. I think I might be frightened were I to encounter such an airborne gaggle.
Thank you. I enjoy it from the safety of my computer.
congrats on finding a new medium, paul. so you usually carry a camera? smart.
i second claire's comment about your shoes.
Thank you, Nancy.
And you, too, Claire. I like that: goose calligraphy.
And thanks, Elisabeth and Jayme. You're right: there was an element of alarm about it all: I'd never seen--or heard--anything remotely like it.
(The footwear! My pathetic running shoes, on sale a year ago at the DSW in San Jose, CA. I have to learn how/when to shut the damn camera off.)
Paul - Goose Frenzy is so great! I love the way the sounds intensify!
Thanks, Judith! Who would have known they'd get so loud. What was first a spectacle of sight turned into a spectacle of sound.
Thanks, by the way, for your Facebook message. Great to hear that you're an Ocean Grove person. We we're thinking of buying a place there several years back.
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