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State Chapters => Texas => Topic started by: Elderberry on January 18, 2020, 01:58:46 pm
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Houston Chronicle by Gary Clark Jan. 15, 2020
More than a half-million snow geese spend winters along the Texas Coast. They constitute the most abundant of all waterfowl and travel at least 2,500-miles to get here from breeding grounds on the Arctic tundra.
In the early 19th century, snow geese probably made an astounding non-stop flight to our region. But the advent of North American agriculture with fall’s fields of waste grain provided the geese with places to stop for food and rest before heading to their Texas destination.
My wife Kathy and I have greeted the wintering snow geese throughout our marriage and even during our courtship years. And why not? Clouds of geese filling the skies present a spellbinding scene.
More: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/gardening/article/Snow-geese-blanket-Texas-fields-14981548.php (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/gardening/article/Snow-geese-blanket-Texas-fields-14981548.php)
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Snow and Canadian Geese are both obnoxious little suckers who get brazen when they get plentiful in numbers.
They'll block roads, look you in the eye, and dare you to pass.
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They still have to fly south for the winter? Does AlGore know this?
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Have plucked many of them and, although not as tasty as the dark geese, can be good in the stew pot.
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See them in and around Eagle Lake every year.
Used to see them all over the I-10 area, between Katy and Sealy, but not as much as before, with all the building going on.
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We haven't lost our natives yet, and northern honkers seem to be sticking around... Open water and open ground. :shrug: