On The Trail With Auntie Elk

The lake drain
Waning Crescent Moon
Canada Geese in Spring
The silence between the music
Goose prints in the snow.
Canada Goose, Spotted Sandpiper, and Black-Billed Magpie
Mr. and Ms. Mallard
Diplomatic Poses
The Lake Hut
Guardian and Gosling
Gosling with Egg-tooth
Canada gosling with an egg-tooth
Canada gosling week-one
Sanctuary Lake
Pre-dawn fog envelopes a mountain lake.
One tiny, fuzzy gosling sits in a forest of grass.
Canada Geese with two-week-old goslings
The guardian geese still maintained a strict circle of protection around the goslings.
The sun peeks out from behind the clouds and shines upon Mother Goose and her goslings.
Goslings are animals that communicate with world around them.
Sunrise on Pinecone lake. The goslings are almost too big to fit under their guardian goose's wing.
Three-Week-Old gosling
Wing Flap
A dabbling brood. Three-week-old goslings.
Canada geese apend a lot of time cleaning and organizing their feathers.
Canada Geese taking a bath in a mountain lake.
Canada goose who has begun to molt.
Canada Goose molting with three-week-old goslings.
With every feather that dropped, the silence grew.
Four-week-old goslings and mountain wildflowers.
Four-week-old gosling.
Week-four-gosling doing a wing flap.
Four-week-old goslings lead their guardians into the safety of the lake where one gosling is curious.
Mr. and Ms. Mallard
Night heron and a bear
Five-Week-Old Gosling
Five-week-old goslings make their getaway into the lake.
As the days spun past, the last hint of the fluffy yellow gosling dwindled into something new.
Gosling and goose take a drink of the lake.
Canada geese munching the lawn at dawn.
Six-Week-Old gosling
adopted goslings
Adopted Goslings
The Approaching Storm
Life is dangerous
Mallard at the lake's edge.
Gosling with fishing line entangled around their legs.
Six-week-old gosling with fishing line entangled around their legs.
Fishing line at the lake's edge.
Like smoke from a summer campfire, the hate and the hurt fade into the night sky.
Seven-week-old gosling asleep in a field of purple flowers.
Canada geese at the lake's edge.
Life is a rare and sacred gift.
The brood enters the water.
Goslings playing at the lake's edge.
Canada goose after the molt as new flight feather begin to regrow.
Deer in the meadow and at the lake's edge.
Canada goose wing flaps at a small herd of deer.
Male deer regrowing his antlers.
Lounging in the prairie sage.
Eight-week-old gosling
The flock made their getaway.
A dabbling brood with eight-week-old goslings.
Female Mallard
Mallard Brood
The Mallard molt.
Canada Goose with full flight feathers.
Side-by side comparison of a one and eight-week-old goslings.
Guardian and gosling comparison between a one and eight-week-old goslings.
The End