Snow Geese?

At the bottom of our hill live a bunch (or is that a gaggle?) of geese who decided to abandon their owners and move into "the wild". All summer long you can see them floating contentedly on the small stream that runs through a small valley. (If you look hard - that dark thread that runs left to right just under the posted sign is the stream.)

Until today, I never stopped to wonder what they did in the winter. Do they go back to the barn? Do they try to tough it out in the wild? Domestic geese aren't much for flying so I doubt they head south. At any rate, this morning they were all lined up along the road looking longingly at their stream. We (and that includes the geese) got 19 inches of snow yesterday.

We came home a different route so am not sure what they decided to do. Upstream we saw two hardy fisherman in their waders in the middle of the stream (after all - 15,000 trout had been released two week ago and were just waiting to be caught). If the snow didn't slow down the fishermen, perhaps the geese weren't turned away either. As for me? I think I'll wait awhile before heading to the waters. (I confess, I'm a wimp!)