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- 1Susan Mansfield's poem 'Bearing South' resonates online●I want answers, but there are only the wild geese Calling, high in the almost-dark, bearing south, And me, stopped short
Lines from Susan Mansfield's poem 'Bearing South', published in The Rooftop Busker: New Writing Scotland 33, are being shared widely. The excerpt — a speaker stopped on a doorstep at dusk, watching wild geese head south from a 'not-quite home' — is striking readers with its image of displacement and unresolved longing, particularly in circles discussing migration and belonging.
- 2Birdwatcher captures sudden goose takeoff at lakeside●Gestern am See. Graugänse auf einer Wiese, unspektakulär... plötzlich flog die ganze Wiese auf, gemischte Gänse flattert
A wildlife enthusiast in Germany described watching greylag geese on a meadow by a lake, when the entire flock suddenly burst into flight and a mix of geese flapped overhead, calling loudly. The observer stopped their bicycle to take photographs despite knowing the birds were too quick to catch on camera. The account is being shared among birdwatching and nature communities.