once upon the Isle, we noted quite a few geese...loud male geese at that...the males stood tall and hovered over a nearby nest...given that this Isle has no [dry] roadway leading to it, predators would have hard time (save for gators and snakes) getting across to poach eggs...

well camflauged into the pine straw on the ground, a female lays dead still atop a nest while her mate starts honking a warning that anyone entering the air space was in for a viscious biting if not beating...

we looked at these two and 4 others from a distance and then scampered off the Isle to leave them to their child rearing to come...really was quite spectacular to be in the midst of...

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