Early Arrivals - Snow Geese - first of thousands filling up the pond

When the shadows get long and the light begins to change into the molten gold that signals the end of the day, the Snow geese begin to return to the pond, settling in for the night, safe in their numbers. As the light fails and darkness descends they continue to come in until it seems impossible that this small pond could hold any more birds and still they come. The calls of thousands of birds as they jostle each other for space and adjust to the ever increasing number filling the pond to over flowing, are deafening. Yet shortly after full darkness they become very quiet with only the occasional bird calling softly in the night.