STRANGERS MEET

A Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) just flew in from the far north of Wisconsin and met a Trumpeter Swan (Cygnus buccinator) who was having a drink and resting in a small pond at the zoo in Milwaukee.

BTW.....That swan is a BIG bird....nearly twice the size of the goose with a 6 foot wing span. They usually need a pretty long run across the water's surface to enough speed to get airborne and this was not a very large pond. I didn't stick around to watch but if he made it into the air it wasn't by much.
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The goose seems to be asking the swan..."where's the best place to get some food around here?"  Always a good thing to ask when you have fuel up for the remainder of your annual trip south for the winter.
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You can see that most of the snow we had has melted thanks to a short spell of warm weather but there's a honking strong wind out there today ushering in a foot of snow farther north but the consensus is that we'll get freezing rain around here......just what I need on a night when I'm shooting a high school basketball game between county rivals.  
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Perhaps it won't materialize.....I'm hoping that if it does it will wait until after I get home around 21:00.
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