Greetings All,

I'm sure that I'm still a LONG way from having seen everything, but here's one I can scratch off the list:

At lunchtime today at the local pond I saw a pair of Canada Geese bathing and preening. Then to my shock, they both dove out of sight! They were under for almost 5 seconds. At this point I sat down to watch. A few minutes later, one of them did it again, and on several occasions they would dunk their heads, do a forward somersault onto their backs, and splash around belly up for a few moments. The bathing went on for over 20 minutes.

My question is: Is this diving and back flipping a common behavior that I just haven't caught before, or do we have a couple of weird geese here?

-Rolan


Rolan Nelson
Fircrest, WA
rnbuffle at yahoo.com
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