Snow Geese Festival
On March 1, 2002, Christine and I journeyed to
Delta, Utah, for the annual snow geese festival. This is a time for
visitors from anywhere and everywhere to view and enjoy the many thousands of
snow geese that stop on the Gunnison Bend Reservoir, a few miles west of town,
as they migrate northward for the summer. It is the first time that I had
viewed this spectacle and I was quite amazed at how beautiful and inspiring it
was. We stayed in Delta that night and the next day we visited the
reservoir where I took the following pictures: on the lake coming in over head when they take off sometimes they fill the sky |
Quick Facts About Snow Geese |
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Weight: 6 lbs (male) 5.5 lbs (female) Wing Span: 35 inches |
Average speed: 50 miles per hour Migration Distance: 3,000 miles at 2,952 ft altitude |
Color: Two color phases: in the "blue" phase, the head and upper neck are pure white, with grayish-brown to black body and in the "snow" phase they are all white with black wing tips | Voice: A high-pitched, barking "bow-wow!" or "hownk-hownk!" Diet: shoots and roots, grass, bulbs, insects, berries, grains, aquatic plants and invertebrates |