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Re: Goose Exodus

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Chris Starling

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Chris Starling

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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:50:57 -0500

My daily trek from Elk Neck to Gunpowder Neck (see below) continues my
observation of waves and waves of goose flocks leaving the bay-area enroute
to their northern breeding grounds.



Monday and yesterday I noted between 2000-3500 geese (5000+/- total) of
varying species flying each day against clear blue skies. Perhaps because
there was a high cloud cover this morning or perhaps there were just many
more geese this morning, today I noted immensely more geese than the past
couple of days. I also noted that flocks were flying at higher altitudes
today then the past few days.



I tried to take a close count (without driving off the road) and am
confident to say that I tallied at least 10,600 Canada Geese today in at
least 50 separate skeins over Cecil and Harford Counties.





-Happy birding,

Chris Starling

North East, MD


On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Andy Martin <> wrote:

>  On 3/9/2010 8:56 AM, Chris Starling wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> My last two drives into work from Cecil County to southern Harford County
>> (exit 100 to exit 77 on I-95) have been nice and sunny. Equally delightful
>> has been the immense number of migrating waterfowl that have been present.
>>
>> Yesterday, 8 March, I noted two large skeins of Snow Goose (estimated
>> around 300 total) and numerous Canada Goose flocks (estimated 2000 total).
>>
>> Today numbers were even higher. Snow Goose totals easily reached 500 and
>> Canada Goose numbers were in the 3000-3500 range. ...
>>
>>
>