The other morning Eric looks out the window upstairs and very calmly states, "There's a family of Canadian geese in the pasture." Teresa looked out the window expecting to see a flock of Canadian geese, only to see, literally what Eric said...a "family."
The geese walked around the entire perimeter of the pasture fence and exited out the open gate. They wandered back behind the barn and never reappeared out the other side. Eric ran out to open the large gate in case they were trying to access the large puddle behind the pig barn. They waddled back towards Teresa, who had opened the smaller side gate. The family passed in front of her, through the gate, honking cheerily and disappeared up the hill into the woods.
Where they came from and where they were headed, we will never know. It certainly was a fun morning surprise though.