Goslings

The day was sunny with a chilly wind.  While eating breakfast, I saw a brown headed nuthatch and a brown thrasher.  Bluebirds, starlings, and a Carolina wren also showed up early.  Something made rings in the creek, maybe a fish catching bugs on the surface?  The back yard across the creek looked wrecked where they're rebuilding the storm-damaged bulkhead.  In the late afternoon a goose led a line of six goslings upstream.  I was surprised to see just one parent when the other came paddling fast and herding an errant gosling.