Geese coming up at Pickett's Lock
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Geese coming up at Pickett's Lock
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 20 Oct 2012
As I was approaching, the lady of the lock keeper's cottage was enticing the geese from the lower pound into the lock. I was too far away to see how this was done. She then shut the lower gate, raised half a paddle and withdrew to the cottage for a bit. She evidently preferred her domestic geese to be in the upper pound. The geese seemed unfazed by this, probably a familiar procedure. This is doubtless the same flock as seen in Image
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Image Location
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51.625981
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-0.032605