While the mid-continent population of lesser snow geese, a mass of waterfowl that includes an estimated 10 million adult birds, gets most of the attention of goose hunters in spring, there are plenty of white geese available in the Atlantic Flyway, too.
The Atlantic population of greater snows, which numbers roughly 1 million birds, winters in the vicinity of Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge on Delaware Bay, with others spending time on Chesapeake Bay and south onto the North Carolina coast. In February, groups of snows will begin their traditional northward trek through portions of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. After staging along the St. Lawrence River, the population will eventually work its way farther north to Baffin Island, where they’ll nest, raise a new crop of…
