Fir Island Farms Reserve Unit Snow Geese show

[arfritz]

Yesterday, Friday, we started a walk on the Padilla Bay Trail but turned around a ways into it due to the north wind causing an otherwise day at 50 degrees and sun into a too chilly experience.  Going on south toward Conway via La Conner we ended up at the Fir Island Farms Reserve Unit.  Shortly after parking the large group of snow geese just west of the reserve moved over to the field adjacen to the reserve.  How to estimate the numbers other than to say huge!  And the sounds.  Watching the aerial display it almost seemed like a dunlin exercise with swirling motions; flying lower going south and then turning to land into the north wind; raising the question of how do they not fly into each other?  Then there were the two bald eagles obvious, but seemingly ignoring the snow geese.  After seeing few raptors on the drive the snow geese experience was thrilling.  Alan Fritzberg

 

[Barry Ulman]

I rode my bike on the Padilla Bay Trail yesterday, and the Eurasian Green-winged teal was present near the beginning of the trail.

Barry Ulman

On Feb 12, 2022, at 8:57 AM, arfritz <arf...@comcast.net> wrote:

Yesterday, Friday, we started a walk on the Padilla Bay Trail but turned around a ways into it due to the north wind causing an otherwise day at 50 degrees and sun into a too chilly experience.  Going on south toward Conway via La Conner we ended up at the Fir Island Farms Reserve Unit.  Shortly after parking the large group of snow geese just west of the reserve moved over to the field adjacen to the reserve.  How to estimate the numbers other than to say huge!  And the sounds.  Watching the aerial display it almost seemed like a dunlin exercise with swirling motions; flying lower going south and then turning to land into the north wind; raising the question of how do they not fly into each other?  Then there were the two bald eagles obvious, but seemingly ignoring the snow geese.  After seeing few raptors on the drive the snow geese experience was thrilling.  Alan Fritzberg

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