Have you ever tried to shoot a group portrait? You get everyone lined up and facing the camera, but there is always one uncooperative subject. That was certainly the case with these Canada Geese (Branta canadensis) at a little suburban pond on Monday. The gaggle of geese was preening and cleaning themselves all in a row on a on a concrete bar sticking out of the water.
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At least you caught most of them looking in the same direction–and the one deviant isn’t really all that far off. It’s lucky thing the others didn’t decide that one bad turn deserved another.
I think she’s about to say “on your mark…get set…”
Those geese are better behaved and more complaint for group photos than my four kids are.