These Canada goose images were all taken on  November 28,  2005. You can see some ice on the pond. Two weeks before the pond had frozen over, but a brief warm spell thawed the ice.  The weather turned fast and by the next evening the pond had frozen over again and the geese moved to the river. 

Clive Schaupmeyer
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Coaldale, Alberta 
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