02-07-2007, 07:10 PM
Spring draws closer with each setting sun. Its approach creates a stir in wintering snow goose populations that erupts into migration, sending them north by the tens of thousands to the Pennsylvania Game Commission's Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area.
Although their name connotes winter, and the possibility of snow still accompanies most weekly weather forecasts, snow geese soon will be converging on Middle Creek - on the Lebanon/Lancaster county line - in their annual spring migration to their northern nesting grounds. Many other species will be doing the same thing, but they just don't have the compelling presence that thousands upon thousands of bright-white snow geese create while crossing a sunny sky or yakking it up in an agricultural field. Their arrival confirms spring's imminence, although it doesn't assure an end to snow. However, it does provide one comforting thought: there is less to winter than there was.
For more information, please visit the Pennsylvania Game Commission - State Wildlife Management Agency website: http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view....p;Q=171160
Although their name connotes winter, and the possibility of snow still accompanies most weekly weather forecasts, snow geese soon will be converging on Middle Creek - on the Lebanon/Lancaster county line - in their annual spring migration to their northern nesting grounds. Many other species will be doing the same thing, but they just don't have the compelling presence that thousands upon thousands of bright-white snow geese create while crossing a sunny sky or yakking it up in an agricultural field. Their arrival confirms spring's imminence, although it doesn't assure an end to snow. However, it does provide one comforting thought: there is less to winter than there was.
For more information, please visit the Pennsylvania Game Commission - State Wildlife Management Agency website: http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view....p;Q=171160