Why enjoy some geese not gone south for the winter but?
I live in central North Carolina. There is a lake here to be exact usually full of geese. Most have gone south for the winter now, but yesterday I took around the mere and noticed 5 to 7 geese are still there. I'm wondering why they did fly down with the rest of them. We enjoy already had our first snow fall of the winter and everything.
THere are many reasons they may have stayed down.
There are usually a few stragglers. WE live in Wisconsin and so most our open wet freezes over in winter ,, but often there will be a few geese gone until there is NO open water disappeared... even after the main flocks have left for stove areas.
Geese that stay behind are often older geese or possibly even Hybrids.
SOmetimes they may enjoy an injury that needs resting as well or maybe even not be capable of migrate at all because of age or injury.
IF there is open wet and a food source they will stay. WE always tell people to NOT nurture migratory geese in the Fall during migration.
IF the birds look uninjured and healthy .. next they may migrate out once the food runs out or it gets a bit colder...
If they do not migrate out and they seem in trouble ..Id inspire you contact local wildlife authorities.. or the Carolina Waterfowl Rescue Program.
My guess is... they will leave once food runs out... But if there is unfold water and they can find food .. really there is no reason for them to make tracks.
Good Luck ..Thanks for caring!
Well I guess "south" is relative. I've noticed this year that abundant more flocks of geese were flying over in late November than contained by other years. Also, there are flocks of snow geese flying over. We are not in their usual flyway. Anyway, I'm surprised you don't have geese year round. There are huge flocks of Canada geese contained by New Jersey that simply don't migrate - they tolerate the snow fairly well. What kind of geese are you chitchat about? By the way, I live in Canada. "South" for the Canada geese and Snow geese is anywhere from New Jersey to the southern tip of florida and some even engender it to Mexico.
Answers: I live in North Texas... surrounded by the direct path of the migration pattern for tens of thousands of geese that fly over every year on their way south for the winter. We hold noticed here... that there have not be nearly the numbers of geese coming over at the normal times for this event.
I might add here... that the geese that are coming over this year have be flying considerably lower in altitude than they have been contained by the past.. We have been wondering approximately that as well..
Also, there is an extremely large tree within my back yard that is generally totally barren of leaves at this point in time each year... and it is still laden near leaves... a good number of them still green.
Whether this signals a mild winter on its way. a extraordinarily late winter arrival... or, exactly what. who knows.. But, I be raised to put a good deal of attention and concern on the "signs surrounded by nature". and, this is beginning to get my distinct curiosity..
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some birds like snow ;/
there are geese within the pond in our yard to. but it is still kind of reheat here and no snow yet. they might be like snow geese?
