Mike Powell

At this time of the year we experience the change in seasons in many different ways. We feel the gradual cooling of the weather. We see the changing colors of the leaves on the trees. We hear (and see) the unmistakable sound of flocks of migrating Canada Geese (Branta canadensis).

Although we seem to have a resident population of Canada Geese in our area year-round, during the spring and summer large flocks of geese fly through our area and it is quite common to hear the loud honking of the geese as they fly overhead. Sometimes they fly in military precision in a v-formation, but more often than not they are in a looser formation, as was the case with these Canada Geese that I photographed last week while I was looking for dragonflies at Jackson Miles Abbott Wetland Refuge in Northern Virginia.

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