Sure the leaves are falling, and (other than the last few days) the weather is cooling off, but today was the first sign that fall is really here… the ducks/geese are back.

Every morning, on the way to #4-son’s school, he and I drive past a low spot in the river, and yes, throughout the summer there are almost almost always a few ducks and geese around. But in the fall and winter this spot in the river is often covered with ducks and geese… literally. A couple really cold days last winter, we couldn’t see water because there were so many birds there… and the river is quite wide at this point, and the section they favor is maybe an 1/10th of a mile long, so it was a LOT of birds.

Not that many today, but enough that it was a sure sign that fall’s here.