The Geese Are Going Ga-Ga.

I’ve mentioned on this blog before that every autumn I see, and hear, a large gaggle of geese flying north. I still don’t know why they would want to go north since north is generally colder than south in the northern hemisphere. Notwithstanding the apparent lapse in credibility, however, north is the direction they’ve always been taking. But not this year.

Over the past few days I’ve seen – and heard – four smaller skeins flying over my house. The first was heading west, the second south, the third east, and the fourth south-east. Why is this, I ask myself. Does it have something to do with the earth’s magnetic field, or climate change, or that infamous comet 3I/Atlas and its close proximity to the sun? My own feeling is that they’re either bored with taking their hols in Svalbard every year, or they’re tired of honking at the aurora.

And I still don’t understand why I still find the honking of migratory geese so magical, but I think I’m getting there.