Today Travalon and I went to Babcock Park in McFarland, where we saw some geese that clearly aren't Canada geese. My online search seems to indicate that they are graylag geese, but those are native to Europe and Asia. However, all domestic goose varieties are descended from graylag geese, so these are probably just feral barnyard geese. They look very much like the flock that used to live in my neighborhood on Pirate Island, and those were some mean geese - once I tried to feed them some bread, and they chased me back into the house - so when the geese we saw today came over to us, Travalon was charmed but I was wary. They just looked at us curiously, and then as we continued to walk, they followed us. However, they made no moves to attack us. Here are some photos of them, along with the Canada geese and mallard ducks at the park. (We didn't have our good cameras with us, so these are cell phone photos from both our phones.)
I like how these two seem to be marching to the same beat!
This goose almost looks calico!
The two white geese were always together.
Then Travalon and I took a long hike at Lake Kegonsa State Park. It was such a beautiful day, and we were trying to get a lot of mileage for the Mount Fuji Challenge. Travalon is already 20% done, and I only have three more miles to do, so hopefully I will finish tomorrow!
We came home and watched the Badger football game, but it was abysmal. At halftime we went down to the dock and saw a glorious winter sunset.
It gilded our neighbors' boat lift cover frames.
I heard a train whistle, so I ran out to where you can see the train tracks, but the train never appeared. The sunset was beautiful from there too.
Travalon caught some geese flying by in some of his sunset photos.
I went in and grabbed Travalon's good camera to take a picture of the Christmas tree across the lake. This is the best one of the lot, but it looks like it's part of the marina. It's actually much further away and much larger than this photo suggests.
After dark we went up to Waunakee to go to their Rotary Christmas Lights display, but there was a long line to get in. We just drove around looking at other Christmas lights, and we came across this Christmas house, as elaborate as the one here in Madison!
Maybe we will try to go to the Rotary Lights on Monday night. Hopefully at some point it won't be as crowded. There are Zoo Lights again this year too. At least COVID hasn't cut down on Christmas lights - if anything, in our neighborhood there are more than ever!
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