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What geese just flew over our house! #5020246 03/14/14 12:22 AM
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I think they are the white fronted , or possibly snow geese?? They have been flying over by the thousands for the last hour. I see them every year, but never in this magnitude and they are LOUD. Seriously, I bet over 10k so far!?

What are they??


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Probably snow geese.

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Does anyone know that when Geese fly in the "V" formation why one side is always longer than the other?


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Originally Posted By: 300j
Does anyone know that when Geese fly in the "V" formation why one side is always longer than the other?
because they don't know how to count.


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Originally Posted By: WBT
Probably snow geese.


That is what I thought, so I went online to hear the sounds, I'm up in the air, wife thinks they sounded like the White fronted geese? I have seen them for 50+ years flying back and forth each year and always thought snow geese. Sounds is unmistakable and usually how I know they are over head.


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Are they headed north?



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RIGHT!, Only good camera we have, my daughter broke! I'm leaning towards the White fronted goose after listening to a couple websites. Neighbor texted me asking if I was "seeing all the dam geese" LOL they where easily into 10k+, wave after wave.


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Saw more honkers overhead today. They are really moving.


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Originally Posted By: WBT
Probably snow geese.

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Are they headed north?


Yes, with a good tail wind, probably 2500-3000'


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Does anyone know that when Geese fly in the "V" formation why one side is always longer than the other?
because they don't know how to count.
That's close enough. A young kiddo told me this joke, he said cause theres more Geese on that side. Lol


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I haven't seen geese moving north yet, but we saw a ton of sandhill cranes moving north this week.

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Originally Posted By: 300j
Does anyone know that when Geese fly in the "V" formation why one side is always longer than the other?

They don't suffer from OCD?


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I bet they weren't geese at all. Probably cranes. I'd bet money on it.

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Had a bunch of Sandhills roost next to the house tonight.

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Originally Posted By: Leonardo
Had a bunch of Sandhills roost next to the house tonight.


Delicious birds, they are. I don't think I could handle a temptation such as that.

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Originally Posted By: Sneaky
I bet they weren't geese at all. Probably cranes. I'd bet money on it.


Sneaky, you could be right, or wonder if it was a mixture of birds? Was the "coolest" thing I have seen this far from a large body of water.


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We are having thousands of geese fly over every afternoon. They got my pickup in three spots Wednesday.


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We are having thousands of geese fly over every afternoon. They got my pickup in three spots Wednesday.


LOL, that's funny, I was outside welding when it started, my wife ran out and told me to look up since I couldn't hear it. Sound was deafening and hard to distinguish "one sound", Only time I remember birds making that much noise, was around 1976 when we lived in Sugarland. My dad took us to some wildlife place towards LA (swamps is what I remember and NOISE) With that much racket, I can understand why some of you fellas "chute'm"


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If they were snows and blues you should be able to tell by the sound. They have a very distinctive call.

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Well I figured it out today when a small flock came over and I had my binos ready, Sneaky was right, Cranes!!! It also was easier to hear them when there wasn't so many.


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Originally Posted By: Sneaky
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Had a bunch of Sandhills roost next to the house tonight.


Delicious birds, they are. I don't think I could handle a temptation such as that.


That they are! It was awesome. I was watching them fly over and they put on their brakes made a turn and went down to an old crusher pit.

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Thats interesting because I saw a lot yesterday afternoon around 3pm high over my house here in Gonzales County. It was easily a few hundred or so and they were way up there.


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