There is always a mourning dove

A High-Flying Feathursday

This week we bring you some images from American author Florence Page Jaques’s 1939 book The Geese Fly High, illustrated by her husband Francis Lee Jaques and published by the University of Minnesota Press. The two married in 1927 when Florence was 37 and Francis was almost 40, and enjoyed a lifetime of outdoors adventures, which produced several books.

The Geese Fly High chronicles a winter vacation following the waterfowl migration. Beginning with a duck-hunting trip in Minnesota, Florence writes a lively and detailed account of their trip down the Mississippi flyway, through the White River bottom swamps in Arkansas, and around the Rainey Wildlife Sanctuary in the marshlands of Louisiana.

The birds we are able to identify with some certainly are Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) alighting from the water (image #3), White-fronted Geese ( Anser albifrons, #5), Snow Geese (Anser caerulescens, #6), Canada Geese ( Branta canadensis, #7), and a Scaup (can’t tell if it’s Lesser or Greater) being attacked aby a Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus, #8).

View our other posts featuring the work of Florence Page and/or Francis Lee Jaques.

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