Re: [gardeners] OT -- Canada geese

Donna Dawson (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Tue, 05 Jan 1999 04:19:25 -0700

Hi Gayle, just thought I should mention that we had Canada geese flying
over us here in Antigua :)
Donna, who is not looking forward to wearing boots and coats again!!
http://www.ICanGarden.com



At 05:32 PM 1/04/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Margaret, your posts have given me a chuckle.  When I was waiting at the
>Kelowna airport in British Columbia on Saturday they were holding all
>flights both landing and taking off.  The reason:  thousands of Canadian
>Geese flying just about 200 feet above the runway.  Lasted about 20
>minutes.  It was a beautiful sight.  I could imagine the pilots of the
>planes landing, "Ladies and Gentlemen:  We are stacking over this small
>airport right now to make way for mother nature's aircraft to take off
>safely and ensure that we can land safely."
>
>Gayle
>
>margaret lauterbach wrote:
>> 
>> The Canada geese are still darkening the late afternoon skies here.
>> Unfortunately I missed the incident over the weekend where something
>> startled those gleaning the fields over the hill from us.
>> Chuck said there must have been a million geese take wing.  An awesome
>> sight.  Margaret L
>
>-- 
>
>"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see"
>
      
>Mark Twain
>
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