BFF At The Spillway - Waiting for Water
Sep 1, 2020 05:06:50 #
The only two geese at this park for a few months at the time I got this picture, so they hung out together like best buddies.
A Chinese Goose (Anser cygnoides) the one with a black bill and a Graylag Goose (Anser anser) the one with an orange bill. Both are Eurasian geese with many types of domesticated geese descended from them. Most farmed breeds of domestic geese are bred from the Graylag. But there are at least 3 breeds of the Chinese Goose.
The ones in the US are feral domesticated, raised for meat and as park/pond geese. So some escape, some are turned loose when they become too much trouble. In Europe and Asia you also see the wild birds. The wild Graylag of Europe is among the largest wild geese. The Chinese Goose is a domesticated bird derived from the Swan Goose of Asia from Russia to Mongolia and Northern China. In both cases the domestics being bred for meat are nearly twice the bulk/weight of their wild ancestors.
This was a time of drought and the level of the water in the artificial river and pond system of the park was generally low so the spillway has no water going over it. On some days the volume of water from the purification plant upstream, the storm drains bringing run off from over watered lawns and the park sprinklers would raise the water and the spill way would have water and a miniature waterfall would be formed on the downstream side.
7DII, Tamron 150-600 G1 @ 428, 1/1000 @ f/6.3, ISO-2000 hand held in late afternoon light 11-27-2015
A Chinese Goose (Anser cygnoides) the one with a black bill and a Graylag Goose (Anser anser) the one with an orange bill. Both are Eurasian geese with many types of domesticated geese descended from them. Most farmed breeds of domestic geese are bred from the Graylag. But there are at least 3 breeds of the Chinese Goose.
The ones in the US are feral domesticated, raised for meat and as park/pond geese. So some escape, some are turned loose when they become too much trouble. In Europe and Asia you also see the wild birds. The wild Graylag of Europe is among the largest wild geese. The Chinese Goose is a domesticated bird derived from the Swan Goose of Asia from Russia to Mongolia and Northern China. In both cases the domestics being bred for meat are nearly twice the bulk/weight of their wild ancestors.
This was a time of drought and the level of the water in the artificial river and pond system of the park was generally low so the spillway has no water going over it. On some days the volume of water from the purification plant upstream, the storm drains bringing run off from over watered lawns and the park sprinklers would raise the water and the spill way would have water and a miniature waterfall would be formed on the downstream side.
7DII, Tamron 150-600 G1 @ 428, 1/1000 @ f/6.3, ISO-2000 hand held in late afternoon light 11-27-2015
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