Geese

As I was riding my bike over a flyover this morning, I looked to my left and saw the most wonderful sight - a large vee formation of Canada geese flying parallel with the road, at the same height and speed as me. It put me in mind of one of those BBC wildlife documentaries where they film birds that have been trained to follow a truck, so that their forward motion is removed from the picture and you can see how the birds' bodies move as they flap their wings.

Incidentally, as a small child I discovered that if you feed plain chocolate to Canada geese it goes straight through them. What a delightful kid I wasn't.