Spring Is For Babies!

Goose babies, in particular. Of course, their proper name is Goslings.

We've had two families on our pond for the last three days: one with about five and one with about seven. They didn't hatch here, because we didn't have a pair nest here this year (the first time in several years,) so they must have walked from the neighbors -- across a corn field half-mile away. About four years ago, the neighbors turned one of their damper fields (right by the creek) into a big Water Fowl Preserve Swamp Area (official name -- I swear,) and that has to be where they hatched.

I finally got close enough this morning to get some decent photos. They were all on the bank before they realized I was stalking them, then they took to the water.