There seems to have been quite the movement of Snow Geese over the last 2
days. All reports I've seen have been of birds on the ground or groups
flying west/southwest.  Cincinnati area reports (all locations Hamilton Co.
OH unless otherwise noted) include:

510 Snow Geese, 57 Greater White-fronted Geese in the Great Miami River
floodplain near the OH-IN line seen by Jack Stenger at 5:30pm 1-18.  There
were 90 Snows there at 11:25 am.

126 Snow, 6 Ross's Geese along Oxford Road near Miami Whitewater Wetlands
seen by me at 5:40pm 1-18. This likely included most of the 75+ reported
feeding along Willey Rd a 1/2 mile away earlier in the afternoon.

44+ Snows and 18+ White-fronts over Fernald Preserve  by Ruhikant Meetei‎
at 1pm 1-18.

36 Snow Geese flying west just south of the Fernald Preserve seen by me
yesterday (1-17) at 4:41pm

50 over southern Dearborn Co. IN (a few miles from OH) by Dave Brinkman
yesterday (1-17) around 4:30pm.

Be sure to watch for and report flocks like these over the next day or so
in SW Ohio!

Additionally, there have been at least nine Snow Goose reports in north and
central Kentucky in the same time period of large flocks with 175 and 200
being the biggest.  Ewing Bottoms in Jackson Co. IN had 5,500 Snow Geese
reported this morning. More info on these is on the Indiana and Kentucky
listervs, but they're certainly part of the same movement going on in SW
Ohio right now.


Good birding,
Brian Wulker
Cincinnati OH

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