[Birdtalk] Corrine

[Roostertael at aol.com]

Hi,
 
Boy did I pick a bad morning to head north to see the white geese. Just  
north of Smith & Edwards, the temperature dropped from the low thirties to  
twenty-two, and the light snowstorm had turned the road to ice. There were  between 
thirty and forty slide offs including a couple of wrecks. The icey  conditions 
went past the weigh station. Lucky to get through unscathed.
 
I stopped in Corinne for a half hour to let the fog burn off and went in  
search of the geese. There was a flock of a couple thousand right at the posted  
spot. They were quite a ways away for any decent pictures, but worth the 
drive.  A couple of miles farther south and west there were two fields with ten 
thousand  or so in them. Wow.
 
I went to Bear River again just because I was close. A couple of Vesper  
Sparrows and a Savannah Sparrow near the Visitors Center. The geese and swans  
have moved and most of the swans are on the ice on the south end of the  tour 
loop. Fun to listen to the continual calling. 
 
I saw a couple of Marsh Wrens around the loop and a Peregrine Falcon over  
the fields on the way out.
 
Jack Binch



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