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Two honklers, afloat.

I presume this is a female on the left and a male on the right, but it's hard to tell with Canada geese because they exhibit no notable sexual dimorphism except that the males are slightly larger, and some of the noises they make are different. These two were uncharacteristically silent. It must be a Bird Fact that they can tell each other apart somehow, though, otherwise they wouldn't be able keep making more geese.

This is the best out of the bunch of several that I took, and was a great example of why your camera's autofocus is oftentimes annoying. Because mine kept insisting that the leaves in the background were more interesting than the bird directly in the center of the shot. I eventually resorted to manually focusing using the inbuilt magnifier function which I remembered I'd bound to one of the random buttons on my R10's body several days prior.

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[–] marine_mustang 4 points 3 days ago

To be fair, side-eye is the only eye they can give.