{"id":419,"date":"2010-03-14T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2010\/03\/nebraska-discoveries-snow-geese.html"},"modified":"2012-05-20T19:29:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T00:29:02","slug":"nebraska-discoveries-snow-geese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2010\/03\/nebraska-discoveries-snow-geese\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska Discoveries 10: Snow Geese"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past 2-3 weeks, it’s been slowly warming here. I wish I had blogged a little more about the extreme bitter cold we experienced here, and the record-after-record-after-record snowfall we had here in the Omaha area since December. I’ll be updating our “Vollmer Weather Curse”<\/a> post soon with this past winter’s craziness and I promise more details then.<\/p>\n

With the ever-so-subtle signs of spring coming, we’re noticing the skies (“skies?” there’s only one sky!) absolutely full of snow geese. Thousands of them flying in their trademark “V” formation…as far as the eye could see across the sky. The first couple times the boys and I have seen them, they were clearly flying north.<\/p>\n

I haven’t taken any pictures of the geese migrating (I know, Maryann’s going to murder me!), but I found this blog post<\/a> that summarizes my first impressions of the geese in the sky, along with a picture of what I’ve been seeing. Note that the post was about the same time of year, just 3 years prior.<\/p>\n

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\nAt first, I assumed that these were Canada geese. After all, they were loud and prolific, right? But driving down Platteview Rd., which is the way I usually drive from my house to our church and our local shopping center (Shadow Lake Town Center), I saw one of the formations put themselves down on a rural field. Again, since I don’t take pictures while traveling 55 m.p.h. down the road, I’ll just steal this picture here, which pretty accurately captures what I saw:<\/p>\n

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\nWait a sec — those aren’t Canada geese! What are those?<\/p>\n

So I went home and consulted my handy-dandy Peterson’s Field Guide…