Southbound Geese?

[02SilverStroke]

Late yesterday, my wife and I were driving near the McKinney (TX) airport and saw several flocks of geese headed south. They were not the usual Canadian geese that go south in the fall. These were sort of a light silver color, and they didn't seem to be as big as the Canadian geese. We thought it was really odd that birds would be migrating south this early. Hopefully that means an early fall. Does anyone have an idea as to what type of birds they were? Just curious.

 

[Tx_Atty]

could be Ross Geese or early Snows. The Canadas hold back much longer than the light geese. Seems really early though.

 

[JLDickmon]

they Canada's are starting to flock up here... wont be long and I'll be layin' on my back in the middle of the cornfields with my SuperX and some 3 & 1/2's

 

[dpantazis]

JLD- so THATS where my geese are going, they cross the lake. bouts here, we see plenty of geese until aug 31, then they vanish. they are gone until about jan 14th... when they mistically reappear.

SilverSmoke- could you HEAR them?

dennis

 

[Crumm]

It is snowing up North so expect them all to be coming down very soon.

 

[02SilverStroke]

Dennis, we were in the car, so we couldn't hear them. Actually saw a few more this morning on the way to work.

 

[02SilverStroke]

It is snowing up North so expect them all to be coming down very soon.

I sure hope so. They can bring the cooler weather and some rain with them. We've already had 37 days of 100 or higher this year, a lot more than average (the DFW area usually averages around 15 100+ degree days annually).