Welcome back… Branta canadensis
Winnipeg, Canada
Warming weather and melting ice (several weeks earlier than usual) has been accompanied by the first flights of Canada Geese returning from southern wintering grounds… I was delighted to see and hear flights of hundreds of the big birds squawking overhead as I drove in to the city this morning—positive confirmation that we have all survived another winter (and two days before the equinox to boot). Welcome back…
Illustration: from a series of wildlife drawings I did back in the mid-1970s… remember Rapidographs?)