Flight of Snow geese..fare-thee-well...

[chain]

This whole week  seemingly endless lines of Snow geese were migrating north. They did their duty this winter in fertilizing fields, I looked up some statistics from poultry litter studies of which of course prove the natural source of plant nutrients and as a soil amendment:

Between  0.5 & 0.7 lbs.of litter is produced per 1 lb. of body weight

Average analysis

N......3.10%
P.......2.77%
K.......2.04%

Someone else can figure the weights and fertilizer benefits of a guesstimated 5000 bird flock of geese feeding and resting in a 80 acre rice field for 6 hours, visited four times during a sixty day period.  ???

[Chuck White]

Won't be long and we'll start hearing/seeing them fly over here.

For the most part, geese are lazy when headed South.  If the weather stays mild enough, they won't go much further South than "right here"!

[chain]

The snow geese bombed me good yesterday as I was driving down a rural road. This flock, possibly 10,000 or more, had just come up from a green wheat field and wheeled directly over my truck and 'plop,plop,plop' came the green excrements on my windshield and hood!

[CJennings]

I was a little shocked given that the pond and lakes are still pretty frozen, but I saw the first of the geese this morning in VT. Just a small flock but it's a start.

[Alcranb]

I had a pair of wood ducks in one of the cranberry bog ditches yesterday. Everything is still froze up good except for this section of ditch about 200 ft long which is spring fed and never freezes up. Didn't see them today so who knows?