Introducing Cy and Helen

In my post about our birds, I mentioned the geese.  Little did I know that they would actually be a developing story. 

Living right on the creek, in the fall we saw flocks of geese swimming by and as the weather grew colder we would hear their honking as they flew past in their V formation.  Only a couple of times would we actually see any of them venture up into our yard, and then there would only be two of them.

Well, lo and behold, once the creek thawed, I started seeing two geese come up into the yard, stroll around, pick at something on the ground, honk a bit, walk over to our neighbours, stroll back our way and then eventually go back into the creek. 

They like to "rest" under the pine tree.

 It seemed to be on a daily basis (at least until spring delivered this unexpected and unwelcome blast of snow!) and I suggested to my husband Jim that we name them.   And after a few minutes he came up with Cy and Helen.   I thought they were perfect names - Helen is named after Jim's mother, and Cy is named after my father.  He considered it the other way around - after my mother and his father, but then it would have been Edna and Jim...and I am not sure that having another Jim in the family would be the best way to go!

So Cy and Helen they became.  They did disappear for a couple of days (I wonder where to?) when we were delivered that frosty, snowy blast of winter but today they were back again!  Still snow on the ground, but they came for a visit.   I get the feeling that they are looking to nest, and I am sure that if they do, I will have a far more difficult time dealing with nesting geese than I had with the nesting robins in our last home.  Geese ar e big and they are mean when they think you are threatening their young!

So I have become quite thankful for the chain link fence that divides our yard ....they don't seem to be interested in flying over it, so hopefully if they choose to nest, it will be on the creek side of the fence!

 Cy and Helen's visit today. 

See you soon!