Snow Geese in Wisconsin

Over the years i've seen Snowgeese every spring and fall. I hunt the east side of Wisconsin, I mostly migraters, flocks of no more then 1000.

Today while hunting on the lake I seen a flock that reached for miles. flying close to the water and heading toward ludington michigan. It's impossible to put a number on it.. but a thick cloud of geese reaching the entire horizon, the number has to be 100,0000-500,0000 Extremely unreal.

I post this on lake-link hoping someone else witnessed this enourmous flight coming through are state. Anyone else see this? weird year................

Could you hear the birds, last January I saw a group of birds and i am duck and goose hunter but not a hardcore one (I do more deer hutning)however i had a friend that is from minnesota and is a hardcore waterfowler and he IDed them as a small flock of snowgeese about 40 birds that were up in the sky around 200 to 300 ft or so. These birds were very loud for how many and very chatty compared to canadas so i am assuming that if the sound was deafening and they didnt sound like swans then they were snow geese. even with hunting the population of the snows keep climing so i am sure they are spreading out to find food and shelter and why not wisconsin lots of corn and hay fields plenty of water ect...... Just my opinion

I belive it is possable. Snow geese are very competitive for food. With over population and loss of quality in the tundra, It may be true that snows are pushing more east. I have shot several snows over the past few years in the west bend and Puckaway/ mariah areas. I belive anything is possable when it comes to snows! Remember when nothing but a garbage bag spread would draw them in...? Now we need thousands of dollars of FB deeks and other goofy devices that make a waterfowl hunter a waterfowl hunter! Keep them moving east...Then I will not have to drive to the dakotas for spring snows!

I love the guys who know everything!! I have seen flocks of snows that numbered in the thousands several times over the last 40 years hunting in Wisconsin. It is not common but can and does happen. I don't know everything like some of you, but I would not say it could not happen.

I saw a couple flocks of snow geese of say 25 to 50, flying in the middle eastern part of the state this past friday and saturday. One flock was only flying maybe 100 yards of the ground.

The only reason I made this post was in hope that someone got a closer view. Glassing from a couple miles isn't accurate. I saw something I never seen before and was hoping someone on the east side also saw a very very large number birds.

a flock of snows and blues fly by fairly low at about 60-70 yards high. There was about 30-40 in the flock and saw a flock of about 20 specks in the area as well

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Harli's get taken every year. Not saying they are common but far far more common than a king, in which someone claimed it was a hen common. I have seen eiders out there as well. Not any type of numbers, but have seen em. One would think of all the other Lake Michigan hunters and fisherman, someone else would have seen the huge flock of birds. Must have come over land if they were headed east. Plenty of people in the woods and on the water this past weekend. Maybe they were ghost birds? Or maybe no one else is saying anything because they were seagulls.

That was two out of thousands of very very very smart birds over decoys that were only canadas, just saying its not like it can't happen. You didn't see what starcraft saw, and neither did I. It's been a strange year, eiders, white wings, and harlequins have been shot, I won't say that 100,000 snows won't migrate over LM, we seen a fairly large flock of them while hunting LM last year and we got one. But like I said, I won't say starcraft didn't see it.... But what do I know compared to all the others on this website, ha?!

G4E, Your buddies got 1 and 1. I know a group who got 4 this year. Thats 6 total which is a long way from 100,000 much less 500,000. If it was from a more credible source it may be believeable.

I remember a couple years ago we got a huge wind out of the west, goose hunters were shooting snows all over the state. Two of my friends did that day as well, one in Horicon and one in Hartford. The DNR claimed they were blown off of there normal migration path because of the winds. Who is to say that the east coast migration of snows didn't experience some weather and get blown off course. Just a theory...

Do 500,000 snows fly over big water, I don't think so.

No one is denying the fact that you can indeed see snows in Wisconsin, but not 500,000 and not over Lake Michigan.

One legged ducks are far more common than people think. Bands are as well. Don't seem to be when you are hunting them but I see banded birds in town all the time. I can show people 2 banded blacks ducks on almost any day near Milwaukee.

I've seen Pintails right in the city. Never more than a pair at a time but usually once a year. Saw some late this summer. They looked like crap.

The huge flock of snow geese in Wisconsin is bunk. Plain and simple. I would bet they were swans or seagulls.

I am as skeptical as everyone else. But no one has a better answer for what the mystery birds could be. Not seagulls for sure.

Do pelicans fly in enormous flocks of 100,000+ ? I really don't think so.

Why do people think snows don't fly over Wisconsin? I live in north east Illinois we see they fly around here once in a while. Seen a flock 3 weeks ago, also seen 2 big flocks of swans.

I have seen large flocks of swans lately- Maybe...

If it were snow geese, I think you saw something that has never happened in this state before and might not happen ever again. 100,000 snow geese is a lot of birds.

Saw a flock of about 75 snows last year, early winter. Flew right over the top as I was walking the dog, low enough to see in the dim lights and making that unmistakable ruccus. This was south of Madison.