Marsh Mayhem! #Wordless Wednesday #This is not V-formation; you need a new signal caller!

Posted on October 2, 2024 by Linda Schaub

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for almost 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub
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30 Responses to Marsh Mayhem! #Wordless Wednesday #This is not V-formation; you need a new signal caller!

  1. Barbara Rodgers's avatar Barbara Rodgers says:
    October 2, 2024 at 6:19 am

    They do look terribly disorganized, don’t they?

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      October 2, 2024 at 7:52 pm

      Yes, it made no sense what they were doing Barbara. This happened just a few minutes after the Heron and Egret collision, so I wondered if that flock of geese saw the commotion and were spooked by it? I could only surmise that. I intended to put these photos in my long Sunday post, but there were already so many photos, I decided to put them here.

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  2. bushboy's avatar bushboy says:
    October 2, 2024 at 8:53 am

    Definitely need some leadership but they’ll get where they are going no doubt

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  3. Kate Crimmins's avatar Kate Crimmins says:
    October 2, 2024 at 10:13 am

    Interesting formation!

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  4. TD's avatar TD says:
    October 2, 2024 at 10:47 am

    The birds are in agreement with direction. Are these the Canadian Geese?

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  5. trumstravels's avatar trumstravels says:
    October 2, 2024 at 11:12 am

    They aren’t in their usual V formation!

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  6. Terri Webster Schrandt's avatar Terri Webster Schrandt says:
    October 2, 2024 at 11:17 am

    Definitely a disorganized flight, Linda!

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  7. singlikewildflowers's avatar singlikewildflowers says:
    October 2, 2024 at 2:05 pm

    Oh, how funny!! They may be flying under the influence.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      October 2, 2024 at 8:08 pm

      Ha ha – I wish I had thought of that line Esther. They looked a bit out of it, that’s for sure!

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      • singlikewildflowers's avatar singlikewildflowers says:
        October 3, 2024 at 2:30 am

        You can use it for next time when you find birds flying in an unorganized pattern! I’m sure you’re bound to find them around.
        Wonder what those birds were up to. Ellis and I saw the animation movie “Migration” at the hospital for the umpteenth time. It tells the story of a Mallard family migrating to Jamaica and they haphazardly get stuck in NYC on their way. It’s a funny and adventurous movie.

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      • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
        October 3, 2024 at 8:17 pm

        I’m going to tuck it away in my brain because I do see birds flying in an unorganized pattern – this was really crazy how they were flying! Also I am going to tuck away the name of this movie “Migration” – it looks like they have it on Amazon Prime.

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  8. Debbie D.'s avatar Debbie D. says:
    October 2, 2024 at 9:35 pm

    Looks like they need a new platoon leader! 😆

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  9. dawnkinster's avatar dawnkinster says:
    October 3, 2024 at 7:08 am

    it’s early fall, they just need more practice.

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  10. Ally Bean's avatar Ally Bean says:
    October 3, 2024 at 9:34 am

    Oddly enough we’ve noticed that the geese that have been flying over us this fall have been perfectly aligned in their V shape. Nary a straggler.

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  11. Janis @ RetirementallyChallenged.com's avatar Janis @ RetirementallyChallenged.com says:
    October 3, 2024 at 6:13 pm

    If that’s a V, they have very sloppy handwriting.

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  12. Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog's avatar Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog says:
    October 3, 2024 at 10:23 pm

    Great pics, Linda! 😊

    I saw two geese flying above my house today… just two. They were flying together but were a good distance from one another. One kept making squawks as it flew… as if to ensure that the other bird would not lose track of it.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      October 4, 2024 at 7:41 pm

      That’s funny Tom. I am in awe of a large flock of geese flying overhead – not these so much with their messy v-formation, but sometimes you see an incredibly large flock in perfect v-formation – just amazing.

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  13. J P's avatar J P says:
    October 4, 2024 at 9:30 am

    Maybe they’re still on the entrance ramp to the sky, where they will get into formation.

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  14. indianeskitchen's avatar indianeskitchen says:
    October 4, 2024 at 9:43 pm

    They couldn’t figure out which one was the leader.

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