Identifying collars for geese - Migration

From John Vradenburg's presentation on snow goose ecology-

Geese we will see at Bosque

Collar colors- origin

Lesser snow goose

RED Warngel Island Russia and la Perouse Bay, Churchill, Manitoba (Hudson Bay)

BLUE Alaska

BLACK Western Canadian Artic (Bank's Island)

YELLOW Central Canadian Arctic (Queen Maude Gulf)

GREEN Eastern Canadian Arctic (Hudson Bay)

Ross's Goose

BLUE (Queen Maude Gulf)

PALE (Quebec Blue- Central Canadian Arctic

YELLOW Eastern Canadian Arctic

some of the 24,000 ducks (a few days later, there were 64,000!!)

North Farm loop yesterday

thousands of snow geese!

Festival is in full swing.. 7,000 sandhills, puffs of snow geese and great workshops

Joel Sartore, photographer for National Geographic and other publications, gave a strong and entertaining keynote His powerful presentation showed all of us- again- how much the natural world matters, how much birds and wildlife matter. His current book, RARE is a gripping portrayal of what we are losing, and his dedication to helping to stop this loss and other losses is appreciated and invaluable. Thank you, Joel.

a friend lost ... a sad day

Bob Merkel, a wonderful man and a great supporter of the Friends, our newsletter editor and corresponding secretary who has devoted much of his time volunteering, has died suddenly. We are all saddened.

sunset pink and blues, thousands of sandhills landed on one of the north ponds elk in background looked a little surprised