Snow geese migration

[BowEd]

Shades of spring coming over me here.Nice extended warm front the last few days here.Into the 50's.Snow geese flying northwest.Every day large groups going by lately.I'm no goose hunter really but it's fun to see.I do like to eat goose though....lol.Even tame ones!!!
I'll try to get pics but they are pretty darn high for my cheapy camera to pic up.

[PEARL DRUMS]

We have bald eagles all over, counted 14 Sunday morning. They make a week long appearance every spring to eat all the winter kill gizzard shad in the lake.

[Hawkdancer]

We are going to try to get out a bit further east and locate a feeding area to bag a few.  There are some flying in our Front Range, but most are further out on the plains.

[Marc St Louis]

Some Canada's flew over the house this morning.  That's almost a month sooner than we usually see them

[BowEd]

We have some local canadian geese that never do go anywhere.Stay here year round.Must be the large lake and ponds we have here or the climate maybe?They do have plenty of corn fields to feed on that's for sure.They must of defected to the USA permanently I suppose???....lol.They do make quite a racket flying very low every spring morning reestablishing their mating bonds themselves as previous mated pairs looking to nest somewhere,but hav'nt started to do that yet.
Quite a bunch of canadians stay here really.I have eaten a few of those.

[Zuma]

Hot Dog

[Marc St Louis]

I've never seen a Canada stick around all winter up here.  They'll stay till Dec. on a good year and don't come back till March.  Mallards do stay year round though but only within the small city nearby

[Iowahedge]

Surprising saw a field yesterday that looked like the snow never melted cause there was so many snow geese in it. Usually have to go to BowEd’s neck of the woods to see large numbers of snows. Saw a lot flying over at the game farm in the northern part of Missouri this weekend.

[BowEd]

Cool...They are'nt landing here like I wish they would.Largest amount of birds I've ever seen was along the Missouri fly way by De Soto bend in western Iowa.So many it's hard to describe.I don't know how the DNR comes up with the estimated numbers they say....lol.

[Hawkdancer]

Ed,
They take a scientific w.a.g - how many fit into a picture of a known area and multiply , give or take a few thousand!  Either way, it is a lot of geese!  I guess if you shoot at one and knock down 3, it is a lot more geese!
Hawkdancer

[Stoker]

good to know they're on the way back. Might have to get out for a spring shoot
Leroy

[Zuma]

Some from the past
Zuma

[Parnell]

Started seeing the songbirds flocking together to fly north for the summer 2 weeks ago down here...waiting to see the first Kites from S America, it’ll be anytime now.

[BowEd]

Nice pics Greg.Quite a specteckle.Was that from last years excursion?
I see Parnell.It seems everybody in their own area have travlers going through.Cool.
Robin and me had some business north of us.She of course had her camera.Along the way maybe 15 miles north a group of what I thought were snow geese but I see they are a grey type goose too.Completely different than snow geese.They were taking a break I suppose in what we call here the pin oak marsh.Is that white headed one in the close up pic in the center an immature snow goose?Maybe a cross bred?....lol.

[Zuma]

Ed
My buddy says you are correct about some juvenial snows. Also some Ross (small white geese). The dark ones are Blue Geese a Canada/Snow mix. Sometimes there are Speckels which are off limits in the spring. None in close-up I can see.
Thanks for the pics Robin! Oh BTW thanks Ed the ones I posted were from 2016. I have videos that are amazing.
I can send them in email if I get a PM
Zuma