On Sunday <3 and I took the Youngling to the White Horse Show near Uffington (just a few miles down the road). The little'un seemed to really enjoy gawping at all the sights and sounds of an English country fair, but there was one thing that really caught my attention as one of the most inspired, bonkers and generally cool things I have ever seen...
There is this French fella called Christian Moullec, who has made it his mission to help save the lesser white-fronted geese which used to be common in Scandinavia, but which are now close to extinction. These geese are being bred in captivity, but to be successfully released into the wild, they need to know how (and where) to migrate. So, M. Moullec has been working with groups of not-so-endangered geese and learning how to lead them on migrations in his microlight, with the intention of learning how to lead the captive bred white-fronted geese on their migrations.
So, the upshot of this was that we spent a little while sitting in a field, watching a microlight flying circles above, in formation with seven geese and (bizarrely — and I never found out why) three storks.
Bonkers. Shine on, dude!
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