neat thing i saw today

While biking through the park today a few hundred canadian geese were flying
around the half frozen lakes. These guys are big, noisy, and clunky birds -
the aviary equivalent of a 747.

I stopped and focused on one as it was decending to the ground - it's body was
slightly nose low, wings spread, planning his landing point.

Then 5-10 feet above the ground he leveled off and slowly pitched up, got
slower and slower, wings out a bit more, pitched up higher, hit the ground
without even a stumble and started walking.

A perfect flare and landing!