Michigan Nature Tour #1

Things I learned while sitting on a park bench next to a lake:

1) Swans rule the lake.
2) Swans hate geese.
3) Swans warn Geese to get lost by twitching their tails.
4) Geese pretend they're not intimidated by Swans but you can tell they really are because they don't take their eyes off them.
5) Swans chase Geese by swimming at them snapping their beaks, or by flapping their wings and skimming across the water at them.
6) After a Swan has run a Goose off, it raises its wings, lifts it's chest, points its beak toward the heavens, and snorts repeatedly as though it's dragging a particularly difficult loogie up from the bottoms of its webbed feet.
7) When a Swan is not showing off, it swims placidly in circles.
8) Ducks don't mean doo-doo to Swans or Geese.
9) My dog, Frannie, thinks Goose poop is a delectable treat.