I drove south of town a few miles today and seen a few small flocks of geese, all over the local cornfields but in the air. I got a little farther out of town and looked east twards the Cedar River and seen close to 200 flying out over the river bottom. We have loads of local geese around here, after a small introduction of them some years back now they number in the hundreds, maybe a few thousand, i don’t know for shure. I know quite a few local guys hunt the rivers and thier tuck away spots for them and there always seems to be just as many the next year as the previous year. Where i live they fly over my house to the fields at night then return to the river the next morning almost like clockwork. I’ve seen a few flocks lately, in the last couple of weeks, that thier flight and actions don’t resemble the geese that live around here. Im just wondering if some of those geese are coming down from minnesota, they fly higher and just don’t resemble the local geese in thier actions and voices. They just sound wilder. Im trying to learn to read geese because i’d like to hunt some ducks and geese this next year. Im wondering now how long its been since they left minnesota, or still leaving the rivers, to try to sharpen my pencil on thier habits to see if any of these geese i’ve been seeing are from up north. Quite a few smaller flocks, 5 to 15 birds, over the fields and all were flying twards the bigger flock and to the river. Nice flock of geese today right over the river and landing on it at about 10:00 this morning.
December 30, 2003 at 1:41 am
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