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Birders

Sogo

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13. My state is on the migration route for Canada Geese,

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Mon Oct 4, 2021, 01:47 AM

Oct 2021

and one October, I was driving north when the sky was full of flocks of geese that were flying south. As I passed an industrial office park, V-formation after V-formation was coming in for a landing at a pond outside of one of the office buildings. I felt like I was driving by and under the O’Hare Airport for birds!

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WOW! Caught them! Driving south, and FINALLY!!! [View all] elleng Oct 2021 OP

I expect to see them flying over my house in the mornings soon. Walleye Oct 2021 #1

Nice elleng Oct 2021 #2

All our big birds... 2naSalit Oct 2021 #3

We seem to be on a major flight path for honkers Bayard Oct 2021 #4

I really enjoyed following your trip through the pictures you have taken bottomofthehill Oct 2021 #5

Happy to hear it! elleng Oct 2021 #6

We are thinking of going to either bottomofthehill Oct 2021 #7

Please, do if you can; the water is so soothing. elleng Oct 2021 #8

N.J. Audubon used to get permission to take a group into the Great Swamp in late October. 3Hotdogs Oct 2021 #9

Nice! elleng Oct 2021 #10

They've started coming over western PA the last few days. Still a bit of a trickle. maddiemom Oct 2021 #11

Heard Sandhills in Lubbock yesterday. Mid-fifties to mid-eighties for the next ten at least. czarjak Oct 2021 #12

My state is on the migration route for Canada Geese, Sogo Oct 2021 #13

WOW! elleng Oct 2021 #14