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[Ontbirds] Snow Geese - Lancaster

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Brian Morin
Sun, Mar 22, 2020 2:28 PM

Checking the area northeast of Lancaster again yesterday, the birds headed
to the river during the day with not a single bird present in the harvested
cornfields at 4:00 p.m. That began to change about an hour later as about
15-20,000 came in to one field. By 6 p.m., more had appeared with about
60,000 spread through a number of fields on or adjacent to concessions 2
and 3 about 2-3 km east or Cty Rd 34.
Additional birds were reported north of Curry Hill and east of Bainsville
with about 135,000 total counted yesterday.

I had a hybrid Ross's x Lesser Snow Goose among them.

The spring Snow Goose hunt is on so if you spot 100 or more stationary
geese back in a few of the fields with pickups parked along the road you'll
know what's going on. Snow Geese are very wary. I didn't spot a single
goose straying over those fields during a period of several hours.

Brian Morin

Checking the area northeast of Lancaster again yesterday, the birds headed to the river during the day with not a single bird present in the harvested cornfields at 4:00 p.m. That began to change about an hour later as about 15-20,000 came in to one field. By 6 p.m., more had appeared with about 60,000 spread through a number of fields on or adjacent to concessions 2 and 3 about 2-3 km east or Cty Rd 34. Additional birds were reported north of Curry Hill and east of Bainsville with about 135,000 total counted yesterday. I had a hybrid Ross's x Lesser Snow Goose among them. The spring Snow Goose hunt is on so if you spot 100 or more stationary geese back in a few of the fields with pickups parked along the road you'll know what's going on. Snow Geese are very wary. I didn't spot a single goose straying over those fields during a period of several hours. Brian Morin