Geese aren't sticking around, but there's lots of ducks, eagles at DeSoto Wildlife Refuge
Snow geese are racing north this spring, so it's hit or miss whether bird-watchers will find any on the waters at DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge. ...
Snow geese are racing north this spring, so it's hit or miss whether bird-watchers will find any on the waters at DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge. 'They will push north as far as they can until they run into heavy snow and iced-over wetlands and lakes,' said Peter Rea, supervisory park ranger at DeSoto and the Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge. 'That's the nature of the spring migration. They are in a hurry to get to their breeding ground. They go all the way up to the arctic.' Instead of flocks measuring in the 100,000s, the ones he's been seeing the past few days have numbered around the hundreds to a few thousand and are mostly in the skies continuing north.