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selenak ([personal profile] selenak) wrote2015-04-18 06:24 pm
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Saturday in the park with geese

What's the English word for "child of wild goose" - "goosling"? Anyway, there are currently a lot of them in the Munich city park, aka The Englischer Garten, and they're adorable. Their parents aren't bad, either. Hence, gratitious pic spam.

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Always with their parents, of course.


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But they do make some excursions.

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And learn swimming:

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Meanwhile, another bunch stays on land:

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Until they're pushed into the water:

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At one point, a loose dog went too close to a family, and this resulted in some very mad geese, hissing like you wouldn't believe:

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And telling their kids to go into the water:

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I mean, that's just not on, dog!

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The gooslings think so too:

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[personal profile] lady_songsmith 2015-04-18 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Goslings, because English is ridiculous like that.

Those are adorably fluffy! We get Canadian geese around here and plenty of 'em, so there are always goslings around the local pond. But I've gone two years without spotting any ducklings, even though we have lots of ducks too. Trying to take my walks out that way more often this year and break the pattern.