[Ontbirds]>30,000 greater snow geese - Fournier ON, April 15

[Geof Burbidge]

I would like to boost Brian Morin's totals of Greater Snow Geese in  
the Eastern Ontario flyway.  On the evening of April 15th there were  
at least 30,000 very noisy snow geese visible on the floodwater  
beside the north levee of the South Nation, just east of where 9  
crosses the river.  We travelled as far as we could east along  
concession road 12, a hundred metres north of that bridge, and heard  
an even louder cacophony coming from the adjacent fields, where there  
were about equal numbers of CAGO and snow geese arriving in flocks of  
hundreds as the light faded.

We await reports from Plaisance.

Geof, Anne, Emma Burbidge, Marc-Andre Lafontaine, Chelsea QC

To access this area from HWY 417 east of Ottawa, go north on 9 from  
the St Isadore exit, and continue through St. Isadore towards the  
north.  The road still may be officially closed but it should be  
passable as you approach the bridge where road 9 crosses the South  
Nation River.  Once over the bridge it is an immediate right on  
Concession 12.