Checking the sod farm east of Casselman at mid-morning there were only
about 10,000 Snow Geese, mostly Greaters but Lessers as well. As I was
leaving, another 7,000 flew in from the east, likely coming in from corn
fields. At 2:00 the numbers had swollen to 40,000+.
Brian Morin
Directions: From
A quick stop at noon showed about the same number of birds as yesterday
(30,000 +). For those timing their visit it is important to consider the
weather. On a bright sunny day like this if the birds are on the south side
of the road, which is where they have only been for me, then checking for
othe
The number of Snow Geese on the sod farm east of Casselman has increased to
about 45,000 since last weekend. The peak should be reached in about
another week or more. Flocks moved in and out with less than 35,000 present
at one time. Some birds had fed elsewhere during the day and moved in from
the
Over the past couple of weeks, the Greater Snow Geese have been very slowly
building on the sod farm east of Casselman. Today there were about 7000
birds with maybe 1000 Canadas sitting separately.
There were also about 20 Lesser Black-backed Gulls mixed in with mostly
Herrings in the same field.
The number of Greater Snow Geese east of Casselman (30 minutes east of
Ottawa) has grown to about 13,000, about 1/7 of what may be there later
this month. There were no other obvious species present but only birds that
were within a reasonable scope distance could be carefully checked.
There are a
I'm parked at the barriers closing flooded Johnston Rd., immediately south of
Russell Rd.
There are approx. 5000 snow geese in the flooded fields to the south of Russell
Rd., on each side of Johnston Rd.
Also, in 20 minutes of viewing time, another flock of thousands of snow geese
took off from
The flooded fields of Milton Rd, east of Ottawa, today finally had Snow
Geese, likely more than 1000. There are still several thousand Canada
Geese. Others: 1 Great Blue Heron, 1 Northern Pintail, 1 Ring-necked Duck,
1 Rough-legged Hawk being chased by a Common Raven, and 2 Sandhill Cranes.
The cra
Yesterday, mid-afternoon, and again today in the early morning there were
several flocks of snow geese east of Ottawa in the Alexandria and Casselman
areas.
The flock at Alexandria this morning were very skittish and after several
small blasts off the water (and returning back) the entire flo
From noon today (December 7th) until mid afternoon, we saw thousands of Snow
Geese (perhaps 20 thousand plus) in the area between Highway 138/417 and St.
Isadore. Our first sighting was of thousands of Snow Geese landing to join
others in a field on the South side of Lafleche Road. As we drove
Hi Ontbirders:
There is a small flock of over 2,000 Snow Geese in a farm field along
Concession 21 SE of Ste. Rose street.
The birds are in two groups. Thanks.
W. Hum
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Directions:
>From Ottawa take 417 east until exit 58. Exit and turn left. Turn right on
>Concession
Visiting family east of Ottawa yesterday I came across two large flocks of
Snow Geese near St-Isidore. A flock of about 5000 was by Cty Rd 9 north of
St-Isidore and just south of Lalonde. The other flock of about 2000 was west
of St-Isidore on the south side of Concession Rd 17. To get to St-Isidor
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