Snow Goose Day at Assateague

We have been making a daily trip to Assateague to walk and watch the waves and wildlife. Today we were just leaving the beach when Esther remarked "Look at the geese!" Right behind the beach is a huge freshwater lagoon that normally has a few geese in it. Today it started with a few, but more and more kept coming.

We began to hear more and more honking, and could see many more flocks coming in to join the traffic pattern. More and more geese kept dropping into small spaces in the water.

They kept getting thicker and thicker in the air. Each flock would join at the top of what had to be a quarter mile stack of birds.

The flocks kept circling and circling, with each pass allowing a few to drop in and a few more to descend.

It was a captivating sight that had people stopping and gawking for 15 minutes or more, until every bird was down.