It’s the first day of spring and what a better way to celebrate it than to go watch the grand spectacle of migration.
That is, in fact, what I had the impromptu opportunity to do this morning as thousands upon thousands of snow geese filled the farm fields and skies of Box Elder County, Utah on this cold and wet mid-March morning.
Each spring, starting in late February, snow geese begin to migrate through the northern corner of Utah in the small farming community of Corinne.
Today, despite the wind, rain, and cold temperatures, the snow geese made themselves very accessible and quite visible for the bird watcher willing to brave the much needed elements to watch thousands of snow geese fill a fallow wheat field and the skies above as the rain poured down.
For people wanting to see this most incredible sight of nature, now is indeed the time. This is the most snow geese I have seen so far this year.
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It relieves my worries that due to the unusually warm, dry weather we have been experiencing lately, the geese might have migrated a bit earlier than usual, much like the tundra swans seem to be doing this year, in fact.
But today reaffirmed my hope there is still time to enjoy the thousands of snow geese for a short while longer. Usually they are available until the end of March and into the first week or so of April, but we shall see this year if that holds true again.
Today, the snow geese were very close to the road and as viewable as I have ever seen them. I found them at 6400 w and 2400 n which is a couple miles west of the small town of Corinne, which is about a 10 minute drive from the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge.
For anyone wanting to see the snow geese, I would suggest doing so as soon as possible as we are hitting the peak time as numbers have gone through the roof the past couple of days.
Box Elder County is the best place to view the migrating snow geese as, much like today has shown, oftentimes viewing them can be quite close and personal.
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It is such an incredible sight and hopefully all who wish to see the migrating snow geese can. It is well worth the time and effort, in my opinion, that is, to make the trip.
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