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03-01-2021, 10:37 PM
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Geese are flying over right now 03/01/21
Have the bedroom window open, have heard them twice now. Where are they finding water???
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03-01-2021, 11:03 PM
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Saw a lot of Canada geese a few weeks ago when it was in the -35 range. Bow river at Calgary, at the waste treatment drain off. I guess a few stuck around this winter?
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03-01-2021, 11:07 PM
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There's always a whack of Canada's that stay through the winter on the Bow on the south side of Calgary lots of feed available to them just east of the city
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03-01-2021, 11:08 PM
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Maybe spring is sooner than we think. Closest open water to you at this time of the year is probably the South Saskatchewan river.
Maybe the geese are seeing lots of guns and tension down south of the border and they figured they'd take their chances here. . 
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03-01-2021, 11:27 PM
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Saw one flying over Spruce Grove today as well. Weird. Seems way too early.
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03-02-2021, 06:24 AM
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Originally Posted by kilgoretrout
There's always a whack of Canada's that stay through the winter on the Bow on the south side of Calgary lots of feed available to them just east of the city
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He's right, lots of night roosts holding 1-200 birds per at various open water areas down the bow river.
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03-02-2021, 08:24 AM
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He's right, lots of night roosts holding 1-200 birds per at various open water areas down the bow river.
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Usually lots of open water on the Elbow below the Glenmore reservoir as well. Lots of geese all winter there.
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03-02-2021, 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Red Bullets
Maybe spring is sooner than we think. Closest open water to you at this time of the year is probably the South Saskatchewan river.
Maybe the geese are seeing lots of guns and tension down south of the border and they figured they'd take their chances here. . |
SSR is a long haul from here. Sounded like they were a long way up, but definately were geese.
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Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck
I wasn't thinking far enough ahead for an outcome, I was ranting. By definition, a rant doesn't imply much forethought.....
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03-02-2021, 09:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Savage Bacon
Saw a lot of Canada geese a few weeks ago when it was in the -35 range. Bow river at Calgary, at the waste treatment drain off. I guess a few stuck around this winter?
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As others have said there usually is a a bunch of them that stay but it seems like a lot more this year. I noticed a ton flying last week over the eastern part of Stoney at sunset, hundreds of birds. Because of the treatment plants parts of the Bow stay ice free longer and they get sort of stuck because all of the water south of us freezes.
A lot of them die off in the spring due to starvation and avian cholera.
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03-02-2021, 10:04 AM
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Geese are flying
A couple of weeks ago when it was really cold, I was driving down the highway by Bawlf. I looked out the window and there was a small flock of goldeneye ducks flying by. They were a long ways from water. Forestburg power plant would have been the closest place but they were headed west. North Saskatchewan maybe, or Wabamun plant maybe. They looked lost.
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03-02-2021, 10:12 AM
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I'm sure I saw at least a thousand flying north overtop of the Springbank Airport last Friday. The sky was hazy there was so many of them.
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03-02-2021, 11:32 AM
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Friend of mine in Nebraska posted pictures yesterday of thousands of snow geese in long flocks heading north.
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The geese went south this winter.... ???? Thousands here in the Hat as well as ducks... the starlings are back so true spring is 5 more weeks away!
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I was fishing on Newell yesterday and there was so many geese sitting on the ice honking it was actually annoying. They were close.
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03-02-2021, 06:29 PM
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I was fishing on Newell yesterday and there was so many geese sitting on the ice honking it was actually annoying. They were close.
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How was fishing?
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03-02-2021, 07:10 PM
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Was working out in Sask last week and on the way home the fields from the Hat to Bassano were all full of geese. Flocks of them flying as it got closer to dusk. Tons near my house hear in cowtown being on the edge of the river. No they don't all go south many stay the winter every year. Lots to eat in the fields and lots of open water.
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Decent action, was slow at times, no monsters this trip.
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03-02-2021, 08:15 PM
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Have the bedroom window open, have heard them twice now. Where are they finding water???
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Kenilworth lake  I've hunted there over when it was a chloride flat ( i think that's what it's called) and when it was very deep (2 feet)
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03-03-2021, 11:32 AM
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I saw a few starlings today hanging out with the big flock of bohemian waxwings that fly around Lacombe.
Spring is in the air.
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03-03-2021, 12:12 PM
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I saw a Canada goose fly over my house in Edmonton today.
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03-03-2021, 12:34 PM
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I saw two geese fly over us this morning, the first geese that I have seen here since November.
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03-03-2021, 01:28 PM
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Saw 2 fly over last week in YEG. They are always "early' in my mind but same time every year. They are very well equipped for the cold with all that down.
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03-03-2021, 01:39 PM
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Kenilworth lake I've hunted there over when it was a chloride flat ( i think that's what it's called) and when it was very deep (2 feet) |
It's open? I dont think so
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Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck
I wasn't thinking far enough ahead for an outcome, I was ranting. By definition, a rant doesn't imply much forethought.....
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I worked out of Lloydminster from 1990-1995 and was told that kennilworth lake was a bird sanctuary.
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03-03-2021, 03:24 PM
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I was down to Waterton Park today and saw about 10 swans in a open slough. Ya hoo spring.
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03-03-2021, 07:27 PM
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Not unusual.
Normally see geese by now, and no, they do not need open water.
They are just fine feeding on , left over crop remnants.
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03-03-2021, 07:58 PM
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Saw my first 4 of the year today lamont county.
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03-04-2021, 07:59 AM
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The first pair of the year that I noticed just flew over Strathmore!
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