[Ontbirds]Fw: Greater Snow Geese - Long Sault-Cornwall

[Brian.Morin at pc.gc.ca]

This afternoon there was a flock of close to 4,000 Greater Snow Geese on
the ice at Long Sault (detailed count). There were only a small number of
Canadas at the time.

On Friday night at Grays Creek east of Cornwall a number of Snow Geese had
settled in for the night.There was enough ambient light with cloudcover and
local lights to do a decent tally. I did a count at 10:00 p.m. and there
were about 500 on shore with a few hundred more on the water. Since the
river had opened up a couple of days beforehand, ice floes were making
their way downriver. One sheet near shore had hundreds of Canadas and close
to 1,000 Snow Geese heading downriver. A second check at midnight revealed
that these birds are party animals. Very few were sleeping.



Brian Morin
Cornwall


Long Sault is west of Cornwall along county road 2. Grays Creek is at the
east end of Cornwall along County Rd 2.