180 degrees different from traditional fall hunts. Much of spring snow goose hunting is time and weather dependent. The same is generally true in the fall, except then it's cold weather systems that ...

The spring snow goose season opened in mid-February and, honestly, leading up to it, the open winter and unseasonably warm weather had hunters and biologist alike thinking: "This just might be the ...

March might be coming in like that proverbial lion with spring not officially arriving for another two weeks on March 20, but there are already a few early signs of the season showing up. On Saturday ...

Birds are on the move as their annual spring migration begins. Radar tracking allows you to follow along to see what birds are flying overhead as the birds move to their summer feeding grounds. "The ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The migration of snow geese and swans through the Freezout Lake Wildlife Management Area near Choteau has likely peaked for spring 2025, bird counters note. Last week, 53,000 geese ...

BUFFALO, NY-- The spring migration of birds through New York state can be a truly amazing experience. From the massive to the minute, migratory birds flying through the area seem the epitome of ...

The sky above the town of Choteau, Montana, comes alive every spring. Huge flocks of migrating geese, swans and other birds swoop in during their long migration to the Arctic from as far as south as ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Numbers of geese and swans migrating through Freezout Lake on Wednesday exceeded 116,000. According to the wildlife management area's information dashboard 110,300 light geese and ...

FUNK — Bird watchers who’ve stayed home waiting for the big March show performed by nearly a million sandhill cranes that stop in the Central Platte Valley each spring for a mid-migration rest and to ...

Mar. 30—I pulled onto a gravel road just before 7 a.m., making my way to the shore of one of Freezout Lake's many nearby ponds. Just south of Choteau, the area sits among north central Montana's ...