I write in Animal Wild about how extremely fond I became of the five rescued birds, who were goslings when they were brought in and of the wonderful video of their release. They seemed to know immediately that in the wild and free was where they belonged.
It is a fifty-minute journey for me to HART wildlife rescue each week and I know it so well now that my mind tends to wander all over the place. I suddenly wondered, given that they had never been able to fly before, what they thought when they first flapped their wings and briefly took off. Did they already, instinctively know that they could move in that way in a third dimension, or was it a WTF moment? Wow, that just happened, we can do that, that’s amazing. A straw poll at HART was inconclusive.
The goose above was photographed at the Abbotsbury Swannery in Dorset.
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