Why don't we do it in the road?

[ericcoleman]

I'm heading out to get some lunch and I come to the end of the road that my workplace is on and there are geese out for a walk. Dozens of them. This is not that uncommon, although you would think, that since the friggin things can fly, that they would. But NO, they're walking.

In the middle of all this is a big friggin turtle. I mean big, 15-20 lbs. I know this since I got out of my car and carried it to the grass next to the pond. I felt that I needed to, since some truck would come around that corner and squash the poor guy flat, and I couldn't let that happen, at least not today.

I would like to state now that, in my limited experience, turtles are ungrateful creeps, this thing was trying to take my arms off the entire way across the street. It did NOT like being picked up and carried.

Comments

[bammba-m.livejournal.com]

i saw a thing (on discovery or pbs) that said it takes birds (specifically migratory birds, but i imagine the same is true of all birds capable of flight... for those birds not capable of flight, flying would definitely require more effort than walking) way more energy to fly a few yards than to walk it.

Thanks for helping the turtle. That makes me happy.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

My thinking is that this would be even more the case for a large bird such as a goose. Whereas flying a small distance is next to nothing for, say, a starling.