Site One Independent Observation!

Although today's expedition consisted of individual observations, the entire class set out with a common goal in mind for the first site: to be quiet enough to view the geese which we knew were floating on the pond through the woods.

Although the class at large was not exactly stealthy, the geese weren't spooked into flying away.  Instead, they simply evaded us as well as they could within the perimiter of the pond.  The geese were strangely quiet compared to their trademark honking, but the buses behind them and the cars on the road certainly weren't.  Other than that, the only sound was the wind.

The water was sparkling with sun, but the wind was cold.  It was hard to get a good picture of the far-off geese!