The one landed first and I knew that the partner would also come. So I was ready and waiting.
They landed on a roof top with their typical loud Egyptian geese calls, and I also got their departure on camera. We heard them for the past week, as they are locked in a battle with another goose that wants to claim their territory. So, you can imagine how loud the battle sounds.
Let's see how Wikipedia describes their battles.
The Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca) is an African member of the Anatidae family including ducks, geese, and swans. Because of their popularity chiefly as an ornamental bird, the species has also been introduced to Europe, the United States and elsewhere outside their natural range.
Both sexes are aggressively territorial towards their own species when breeding and frequently pursue intruders into the air, attacking them in aerial "dogfights". Egyptian geese have been observed attacking aerial objects such as drones that enter their habitat as well. Neighbouring pairs may even kill another's offspring for their own offsprings' survival, as well as for more resources.
The one behind was the loudest, as it continued to moan very loudly.
Then the one at the front started to stretch, which means that it was getting ready to fly.
Yep! It turned into my direction getting ready.
But it took off too quick into another direction, but at least I knew what the direction the other one would take.
Again, I was wrong, as when it took off it headed in my direction and below I have four shots of it coming over my head.
So now you know what it looks like when the geese take off in flight.
I was thinking about what to do for a relaxing Sunday post and the geese came in for me to make an easy decision on what to share, in fact I think that they volunteered for the post today :) Not really, but in my imagination they did. I have posted them flying several times over my years on Hive here, and it was so great to get them on show again. I took the last four photos on the sports setting of my camera as on that setting one just has to hold the camera trigger down and it takes the shots in quick succession.
I don't know if you noticed, but after the third picture above, I slackened off on the zoom and I did this because I did not know in which direction the geese would fly. So, I had to allow scope to get them when they take off towards the right-hand side, but it wasn't necessary as they headed into my direction, nevertheless I had it covered. Over time one can learn all the tricks of the Canon bridge cameras, and in the early days when I started photography, I had a small SX450. Then I had an obsession to get a shot of the moon, and I upgraded to an SX650HS. When that one conked, I got the current one which is an SX70HS, and the sad news is the canon has now stopped production of the Powershot bridge cameras.
Such is life.
I hope you enjoyed the pictures and story.
Photos by Zac Smith. All-Rights-Reserved.
Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.
Until next time, cheers!
