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Coming home from Canandaigua on Rt. 245 in the afternoon, we saw a huuuge rag-tag formation of geese making their way east... Against the backdrop of a metallic winter sunset, it was a stunning site - at first I tried snapshots from the moving car, then we pulled over and stopped to get out for better shots and hear all their squawking. But it was frrrriiiiikkin' frrrriiiigid (low 20s) with super strong winds that looked to be giving the geese a hard time too, which perhaps is why their formations looked so odd. So I waved the camera around as quickly as possible and jumped right back in the car - alas these shots don't do the moment justice at all - and there were a lot more geese than these photos suggest: