On the Road: Geese everywhere

There are several big, shallow bodies of water due east from the city starting with Weed Lake here by Langdon , Eagle Lake south of Strathmore and Namaka Lake a little bit south from there.

Canada geese, of course, are around here all year . They stay because the Bow River doesn’t generally freeze solid in the winter.

But big flocks of their more migratory cousins come through at this time of year .

There were at least a thousand geese right beside me, nearly all white-fronted with a few snow geese among them as well.

Stobart Lake was just down the road on the Siksika Nation and I was curious if there would be more geese there.

There was one big flock far out on the lake, way too far for pictures, so I kept on going east to see what else I could find.

The geese were still where I had left them but now they were milling around a lot more.

Contrasting them, on a pond a little further west, a handful of Canada geese idled the warm afternoon away.

There are over a million white-fronted geese in North America and many times that number of snow geese .