Barnacle Goose

I saw these beauties over in Finland, don’t the goslings look sooooo soft! Legend has it that these geese were born of driftwood, they get their food and growth from the sap of the wood.  It’s believed that the legend was started due to the fact that no one had ever seen these geese in the summer, so they thought that they were developing from driftwood then growing underwater. Actually they were breeding in remote Arctic regions!