As the late-winter snow goose migration through the southeastern part of the state winds down, officials with the Pennsylvania Game Commission are feeling as though they dodged a large-caliber avian ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The migration of snow geese and swans through the Freezout Lake Wildlife Management Area near Choteau has likely peaked for spring 2025, bird counters note. Last week, 53,000 geese ...

Tens of thousands of snow geese return to California’s wetlands every winter, sending bird enthusiasts and conservationists flocking to the Sacramento Valley to catch the noisy spectacle. The Central ...

Experience one of nature’s most breathtaking spectacles as thousands of snow geese take flight during the annual Delta Snow Goose Festival, happening Feb. 21-22. Hosted by the Delta Chamber of ...

Snow geese fly above Freezout Lake in Choteau, Montana during their yearly migration north. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake) Leah Guttman, a Whitefish resident, holds a snow geese feather at Freezout ...

At Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area, late winter with the lake frozen and the fields snow-covered is usually the calm before the storm of over 100,000 snow geese migrating through with tens of ...

With the sudden warm-up that has occurred in the past week, the light goose migration is in full swing. The birds tend to flock north until they hit the snow line, and with little to no snow remaining ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Bird counters estimate 92,000 snow geese pushed through Freezout Lake Wildlife Management Area near Choteau on Thursday. That's the largest single-day number of birds counted this ...

DURHAM — Bird lovers from all over the north state flocked to southwest Butte County — with Patrick Ranch as the focal point — Saturday morning for the third day of the 25th Snow Goose Festival. The ...

At Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area, late winter with the lake frozen and the fields snow-covered is usually the calm before the storm of over 100,000 snow geese migrating through with tens of ...

Mar. 30—I pulled onto a gravel road just before 7 a.m., making my way to the shore of one of Freezout Lake's many nearby ponds. Just south of Choteau, the area sits among north central Montana's ...