Landing on thin ice (Canada goose, West Park)

Landing on thin ice (Canada goose, West Park)

When this Canada goose landed on the lake at West Park, it presumably thought it had found a large stretch of open water with no other birds already present to get in its way. In fact there was a large patch of very thin ice, not quite melted away after a cold spell. The line of open water its landing created is probably about half the length of the wake it would have left if the ice hadn’t been there.