A Wild Goose Chase
Posted by Ceri Davies Sat, 17 Jun 2006 19:44:00 GMT
We were walking around Roath Park lake today, admiring the sunshine and eating our ice creams.
Roath Park sports a large and varied collection of bird wildlife, including swans, ducks, cormorants and at least three types of goose.
At 1645 on the dot, every goose on the entire lake ran, waddled or flew to gather under the same tree on the western bank. There were at least one hundred geese stood around under this tree for a couple of minutes and then, just as suddenly as they had all rushed there, they started to wander off back to whereever they had come from.
There is no reason for this. Nobody was handing out food, they weren’t doing anything when they got there, and no other species of bird followed suit.
It was completely awesome and bewildering. Hope I get to see it happen again some time.
