March 02, 2008: The wanderer returns

chop stick skillsThe picture shows some strange habits Tony picked up while he was in China. Apparantly the food was excellent. Tony led students up to their knees in mud in an attempt to show them how to work out what geese eat and how much energy they get from what they are eating. How? Don’t ask! It involves picking goose poo and counting how many times each goose pecks per hour for which video film is invaluable because they peck too quickly for the human eye to keep track of. The geese in question were the very rare lesser whitefronted geese and not the usual and even rarer (sometimes) Greenland Whitefronted Goose.

Tony got back late last Thursday evening.