2013 Goose Pow Wow (in the field behind our house)

One night this week, while we were hanging out, setting things up in the new office, we heard honking. Being that our house backs onto open fields, we're pretty used to groups of geese chatting to each other - but the honking we heard this time was different. It was louder and much more intense.

We opened the back door and it was obvious by the sound (deafening, layered honking) that there were dozens and dozens of geese back there, so of course I grabbed the ol' camera and tried to capture what was going on.

Then the unimaginable happened. Dozens and dozens more geese started flying in and joining the Pow Wow. It was amazing. By the time all the meeting guests arrived, there must have been a few hundred geese back there and it sounded like they were ALL talking at the same time.

They stayed for about 15 minutes, chatting the whole time, and I snapped these pics when they started to leave (I wished out loud I had a better zoom lens!). What an amazing sight (and sound) to behold.