Checking the area northeast of Lancaster again yesterday, the birds headed to the river during the day with not a single bird present in the harvested cornfields at 4:00 p.m. That began to change about an hour later as about 15-20,000 came in to one field. By 6 p.m., more had appeared with about 60,000 spread through a number of fields on or adjacent to concessions 2 and 3 about 2-3 km east or Cty Rd 34. Additional birds were reported north of Curry Hill and east of Bainsville with about 135,000 total counted yesterday.
I had a hybrid Ross's x Lesser Snow Goose among them. The spring Snow Goose hunt is on so if you spot 100 or more stationary geese back in a few of the fields with pickups parked along the road you'll know what's going on. Snow Geese are very wary. I didn't spot a single goose straying over those fields during a period of several hours. Brian Morin _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide Visit the OFO Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists
