Ducks and Geese 鴨子與鹅

It was one of those picture perfect days recently, so I just couldn’t resist going on photo shooting trip nearby our house. The light was just perfect, sunlight shining from a deep blue sky and a couple of puffy clouds. This lake seems to be a nexus for birds from all places. There are tropical birds here and there are also northern birds that stop down in the wintertime to get their bit of sunshine and warmth. They all make for a real cacophony in wintertime, but this is spring

…the time it seems for little geese to be hatching and walking around. When I got too close the mother hissed at me but fortunately I have somewhat of a telephoto and 8 megapixels of size so I got a good close up. It brought me back to a similar scene in Hsin Dian 新店 near Taipei, where we were out on a lake in peddle boats. We saw, and I got a nice photo of a large white crane 白鶴. (The crane has a special place in Chinese culture, remaining high above worldly concerns. In fact, 焚琴煮鶴 or burn the zither and cook up the crane, refers to destruction or disregard of high culture….so we can safely assume that cranes weren’t considered game birds.) The only geese-like birds we saw there though, were the boats we were peddling which were in the shape of swans.