Canada geese need open water.
They will migrate south far enough to find open water.
Sometimes, that distance is within a single State.
That’d be the locals, we have that pattern in WY. The real migration is when actual Canadian canadian geese fly in/over the state. Was more noticeable in ND.
thanks for that ... makes sense.
I just now read up a little about geese migration.
Since we haven’t really had hard winters in a long time here, no need to migrate.
We have a nice pond on our property - around 3 acres. We have a water fountain on each end, so it never fully freezes. Several sets of geese come each year to nest and raise babies for a couple months. When the neighboring pond freeze in winter, we get many, like a hundred or so, because the water is not frozen.
One year we were overtaken by many hundred snow geese. Had never seen them before. It took about 15 minutes for them all to land on the pond. Groups continued to circle until they could get a path to land. Probably over a thousand huddled in for the night. They all slept on the ice around the small open water area.
We had never seen snow geese, and it was quite fascinating to watch so many groups land. Next morning, weather was better. As soon as hubby started up the Polaris, they took off in a rush. Life on our little farm.