2005 Spring Snow Goose Migration Reports

by **easycaller** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:27 pm

Squaw Creek Biologist posted a new count for SC AS OF 03-01-05 345,000 WITH SKIM ICE ON THE WETLANDS.

by **jbaincfl** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:36 pm

Do you really think there will be good numbers in ND by this weekend? I would think it would be at least 1 more full week before there will be good numbers.

by **gandergrinder** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:38 pm

I don't think you will see any birds in Nodak this weekend but if your willing to travel SD should be the ticket. The best hunting is always after they move into a new area.

by **Olson21a** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:56 pm

Anyone know how far up in South Dakota the birds are???

by **mallardhunter** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:10 pm

Not up in Aberdeen yet

by **pondhopper** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 6:32 pm

5 of us are heading to aberdeen area this weekend. curious if anyone thinks the birds will be up there yet. Guide said birds were coming then offered our deposit back. confusing! From wisconsin wondering if we should head to nebraska or stick with our reservations in aberdeen. any info would help.
thanks.

:sniper:

by **mallardhunter** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 6:35 pm

I really don't think they will be up here yet, we still have a few inches of snow on the ground. They are towards the southern edge of the boarder.

by **back2hunt** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 7:19 pm

Hello all,

I drove from Sioux Falls to Mitchell and back this morning and saw 15K + snows/blues feeding along I-90. On the way back I saw at least that many again flying north. There were also lots of flocks of birds flying that I never got close enough to identify. Just some info for the snow busters.

by **1187MAN** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 8:50 pm

HELLO ALL,
I AM A NEW MEMBER FROM MINNESOTA AND IM TRAVELING TO LAKE OAHE THIS WEEKEND AND IM WONDERING IF I SHOULD BRING MY SNOW GOOSE ARTILLERY WITH ME?!?!

by **purepower** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:17 am

got reports from my g-parents that there were some snows just on the south end of huron flying N. they saw them all the way from Yankton to huron...

by **Ryan_Todd** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:18 am

i'm at the super 8 motel in mitchel right now and there are snows flying around all over. from my room i could see cabelas across the interstate from me and i could here them through the closed window. also last night at about 9:00 when i checked in to the hotel, there were snows flying north. i'll be driving from mitchel north to aberdeen today and will report what i see.

by **Gillraker** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:33 am

Saw a flock of ~60 Canada's near Tolna this morning! Still a fair amount of snow out there. Temps look good for the next week though....things will change in a hurry.

by **sleeplessnights3** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:23 pm

just wondering if anyone is seeing any snows in west central ia? i live half way between omaha and sioux city and have only seen one group of about 5 hundred a week ago. hope they make my way this next week. a year ago 4 of us shot right at 100 snows in a 2 week period. all jump shootin. what a blast!! anyway can anyone help me out? seeing any?

by Ty » Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:10 pm

people are talking like the basins are now at their PEAK. Yet I live a couple hours north of there and not many are coming up this way.

A little more time.

by **goose nuker** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:20 pm

I'm not familiar with the basins where are they? :withstupid:

by **BirdCrusher** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 4:39 pm

There in South Central Nebraska.

by **goose nuker** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:26 pm

Tommy T thanks :beer:

by **pondhopper** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:26 pm

just wonderin if anyone knows anything about the snows near aberdeen. Heard reports of several thousand or so in spink co. any local knowledge would be greatly appreciated. thanks

by **Chris Hustad** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:49 pm

Brad Anderson just called from Grand Island, NE and said the numbers are pretty thin, however, a lot of juvies just showed up.

The birds should work into Cen. SD throught this weekend, and should be huntable numbers all over.

Looking forward to it!

by **Bruce** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:30 pm

Spend the day in SD. Going south on hwy 25 I spotted geese on the ground just south of Desmet. There were scattered small flocks flying north and south. Headed south of Spencer and saw only one flock of about 2,000 birds sitting in a WPA. Spend the evening north of Lake Thompson pass shooting but I guessed wrong. I'm going to wait til next week when things are a little more open.

by **fishoutloud** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 12:48 am

Jeffry energy center in N.E. Kansas is still reporting 40k snows and blues. Went back up to Perry lake and didn't see near the geese that had been there earlieer in the week. Does anyone have any info on how many more birds may be still south of Kansas? If anyone knows any links or sites that would be great! Good huntin' fellas'

by **MrSafety** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 8:05 am

I spoke with a farmer NW of Webster SD yesterday afternoon and he said they have not seen any white geese yet. He did say there were lots of honkers. They still have 1 to 2" of snow yet. He felt that would go this weekend. Next weeks forcast doesn't look overly warm either.

by **MnDiver** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 8:12 am

SD Report:

March 2

Available reports indicate that increasing numbers of light geese are making their way further northward into South Dakota.

Lake County reported approximately 10,000 geese on Lake Herman, with lots of very large flocks flying over the county. There are also about 5000 geese on Lake Henry Waterfowl Production Area in southwest Lake County.

Spink County reports indicated several thousand snow geese showing up on Twin and Cottonwood Lakes. Some geese are staying on the ice, as there is very little if any open water there yet.

A few light geese were reported on the Dixon Game Production Area in Gregory County, which are the first birds detected there.

by **sleeplessnights3** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:56 am

still no snows in west central ia. anyone know if we will see any ? alot of canadians and specs around though! warmer temps this week will hopefully bring em. probably going to stay west of us??

by **Ryan_Todd** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 12:37 pm

yesterday i drove from mitchell to aberdeen and saw lots of birds in the mitchel area. saw four different fields NE of mitchell that had 5k to 10k birds in each field. the farthest north that i saw birds was just north of hwy 212 between watertown and redfield. the snow line starts about 10 miles south of aberdeen where i was driving. didn't much of any sheet water in any of the fields. many of the flocks that i did see didn't seem like they were in the migrating mood. they were flying in all different directions.

by **goose nuker** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:54 pm

just heard this lunchtime there are quite a few snows moving just west of mitchell, didn't know numbers but said alot the past three days heading north

by **Storm** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:41 pm

I just flew from Lincoln, Ne to western Kansas. This took me directly over the eastern part of the rainwater basin. I really didn't see that many snows. I saw a big group on branch oak by Lincoln, and then saw a few smaller lakes holding some. I only saw one flock in the air and none in the fields. Not sure if there are mostly through or there is still some south.

by **ToPe** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:43 pm

Pretty thin here around columbus ne. Are most of the geese out west around the kearney area. Any geese yet along the kansas nebraska border.

by **toad1966** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 8:03 pm

Been seeing alot of birds moving back south the last couple of days. North wind on Mon- Tues seemed to start them back south. Rosses and juvies showed up last weekend and were seeing birds moving from west to east. We still have a lot of birds in SE Nebraska and there really spooky. Not very many birds being taken over decoys in the past few days. I think we need a big storm to scatter em out a little. Very smart damn birds. TOAD

by **Chris Hustad** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:41 pm

Brad A. drove up I-29 and saw a good amount of snows along the interstate from Sioux Falls all the way to Watertown.

We got the call and are heading down to SD tomorrow for the weekend. Scouters are very optimistic as we have an opened pond with lots of birds flying over. We'll be between Mitchell and Madison. Supposed to be pretty warm this weekend, should see more birds.

by **mallardhunter** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:44 pm

Scare them up to us, I might be out and about Saturday and Sunday.

by **fishoutloud** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:24 pm

Hey ToPe, Just got done checking kansas parks and wildlife weeklly waterfowl reports. Lots of posts for today and sadly not looking very good.Most resivoirs and wildlife areas have ZERO snows and blues. Just a bunch of canadians and specs. The only place where there is saposed to be any is Jeffery energy center. I't located about 65mi. south on hwy63from Dubois Neb. This update was from 2-28. Estamated then to be 40k.

by **Garvdog** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:11 pm

Hey Chris, you said you saw them all they way up to Watertown huh? How many birds were concentrated in this stretch? I live in Watertown and am trying to decide whether or not I should go out tomorrow afternoon. How far south do you think i'd have to go to get some shooting? Thanks for the help.

by **Gillraker** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 10:06 am

Just got a call from a family member in southern ND . He was out feeding his cows and the first strings of snows that he has seen just boiled over

...heading North!

by jb » Fri Mar 04, 2005 10:33 am

I am in central MO we have high birds moving NW right now I have seen around 6 flocks with around 50-250 birds each and I am right in the middle of town a good ways from the MO river

by **Dan_Mohn** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 12:40 pm

When will the 4 million in the basins get to South Dakota? You would think the next couple days with the heat wave, but with the cold front next week it'll propbably screw things up. What you you guys think?

by **gandergrinder** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 12:45 pm

Reports say birds are pouring into Southern SD. I'll let you know how it goes on Monday. :lol:

Have a good weekend guys.

by **sleeplessnights3** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 2:01 pm

Nothing moving at all this morining.The cans and specs didnt even go out to feed this morinig. The wind is stiff out of the west norhtwest. About every pond is beginning to open up now. Hopefully some snows will show up this weekend! Good luck to you guys in SD and ND. Looks like slim chances for us down here in western iowa.

by **purepower** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 3:00 pm

havent seen any yet but getting very anxiose gonna be with mallardhunter this weekend plan on shooting some on sunday

by **DockterRehab** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 6:05 pm

hey guys,
Does anyone have any idea how many brids are in Mitchell, SD right now? Im heading there next weekend-11-12-13, any ideas how many will be in Mitchell then??? And i heard that the Basin is pretty much empty, is that true? if so, where the hell are the 4 million at?

well good luck everyone!!!
thanks
oh yeah, is there any open water in Mitchell or any sheet water on the fields?

2005 Spring Snow Goose Migration Reports

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