Snow Goose & Tundra Swan at Middle Creek Wildlife Area

It's March and that can only mean the annual Snow Goose show at Middle Creek Wildlife area has begun.....and as in years past..this year did not disappoint. As in the past few years, the Snow Geese arrived early this year - around mid February as the weather was quite warm (global warming???). There where an estimated 200,000 snows at the MCWMA the weekend of February 24th....however, that numbers have declined steadily since then.

Currently, there are about 3,000 Snows and about 400 Tundra swans at Middle Creek.

Snow Geese looking toward willow Point

Tundra Swan

Tundra Swan

Snow Geese looking from Willow Point

With the ice cover gone from the lake and ponds - there are also several other species of waterfowl showing up: Ring Necked Ducks, Lesser Scaup, Common Mergansers, Bufflehead, Amer Wigeon, Black Duck and Mallard.

There was also several Redheads (only seen they here once before by me) seen a week ago..and that was very nice surprise.

Ring Necked Duck

Great Blue Heron

Amer Wigeon

RedHeads

Looking forward to a year of good birding and more posting.

Not all that wander are lost.