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I witnessed something today over the course of several hours that I don’t think I’d seen before. It involved lots of wildlife.<\/p>\n

One of my part-time jobs allows me to circle a parking lot at the Toyota dealership where I work. I spend about half my day outdoors offering help to customers who might need it. <\/p>\n

Well, beginning shortly after noon today, I heard the sound of Canada geese overhead. I looked up and saw this large flight of geese moving westward over the ranchland just west of the dealership. It contained a couple hundred geese.<\/p>\n

Then came another formation of geese. Right behind the first one, this second flight also moved off to the west.<\/p>\n

Then a third flight came. And a fourth. And on and on it went, for most of the afternoon. <\/p>\n

Geese, thousands of them, heading west. <\/p>\n

I have a rough idea where some of them originated. I am guessing they took off from McDonald Lake, a playa that sits at the corner of 45th Avenue and Coulter Street in Amarillo — not far from our home. But surely the lake couldn’t have been starting point for all the birds I saw today.<\/p>\n

My goodness, there had to have been 10,000 birds migrating for most of the afternoon. What the heck, I have no clue how many birds I saw today. Ten grand sounds about right.<\/p>\n

I have no clue where they were going, or why they all took flight when they did.<\/p>\n

I’ve drawn one quite obvious conclusion based on what I saw today. The world has no shortage of Canada geese.<\/p>\n

I’ll be back at work tomorrow and will be looking for signs of more these creatures. Here’s hoping they take flight. They make quite a sight on a cold, cloudy day.<\/p>\n\n

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