Yes, they are.  I'm sitting here, getting ready to write another post and I again here the loud honk of geese.  What's really funny is to just watch them fly over head and "really" listen to their honking.  Sometimes they sound like they are just carrying on a conversation...

"Say, how do my feathers look today?  Do they make my butt look big?"

"Not at all, very slimming."

"Excellenttttt... I'll have to wear them this way again!"

Other times it sounds like they are yelling at each other...

"What are you doing?  Don't you know you are supposed to be catching that other air current?  Thanks a lot, making us work harder just 'cause you wanted to check out that field over there..."

Ok, so clearly there is a reason I am not a script writer :)

Be that as it may, I love listening to the geese flying over head - they are loud and funny and beautiful all at once.  This is but one of the many pleasures I have living in gorgeous Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.