Northern Flights

[Steve Schlumpf]

For just a few days each spring, we are treated to one of nature’s best shows – the northern migration of Canadian geese. In a matter of a few hours, thousands of geese fly right over my house! I love listening to them and the size of some of these flocks is enormous! It is not uncommon to see a dozen or so of these huge flights at the same time.

Thought I would share a few snapshots of this morning’s entertainment!
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[Steve Schlumpf]

Just a few additional photos...
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[John Pratt]

We are more than happy to let you have them back. Many of them come and winter here in Oklahoma and leave a tremendous amount of....."gifts" for us to enjoy.

[Lee Schierer]

We see them here too and we even have resident wones that never leave.

I love going outside at night and hearing the Tundra Swans honking high overhead.

[Frank Guerin]

Just beautiful. I just get squaking sea gulls and moskitoes.

[Joe Angrisani]

Great shots, Steve. But just so you know, there is no such thing as Canadian Geese. They are "Canada Geese". One Canada Goose, many Canada Geese. But never Canadian.

[Jerome Stanek]

I wish they would stay in Canada. We can't even walk around our property for all the goose Sh&t.

[ray hampton]

I wish they would stay in Canada. We can't even walk around our property for all the goose Sh&t.

if you do not want the Canuck geese then sent them to my neighhood

Kentucky

[charlie knighton]

thanks for sharing

[Todd Willhoit]

Did you ever wonder why one side of the "V" was longer than the other?






















...it has more geese.

[Rod Sheridan]

Hey, thanks for taking such good care of them again over the winter, based upon your great work we'll loan them to you next year.

Regards, Rod.

[Larry Frank]

Those were some great pictures. I also enjoy the bird migration and where I live, I see large flights of the Sandhill Cranes migrating both fall and spring. They fly so high at times you can barely see them but you can hear them. It is fun to watch them circle and gain altitude with a large number of them spiraling higher and then taking off in a v-formation.

I must be getting old because I like watching the migrations. I watch the maps of the Ruby Throated Humming Birds to see when I should put out a feeder and I watch the maps for the migration of the Monarch Butterflies. One of those things on my Life List of things to do is to go see them in the winter time in Mexico where there are millions of them in a small area. How can such a small thing migrate to Mexico?

[Baxter Smith]

Neat pictures Steve. Where I grew up in Maine, if you saw one V it was a thrill. Now living in Southern Delaware, we often see lots of V's flying back and forth between feeding and resting areas through much of the fall and spring. Took these cell phone pictures this morning behind a local shopping mall. Several were sitting on nests beside a a drainage pond for the parking lot. I guess they have decided that fuel is too expensive to make a long trip this year.
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