Snow Geese Migration - Freeze Out Lake Montana

 I saw the migration numbers on the Montana Fish and Wildlife web page

(click the tab at the top right 'Migration Status' to see the current numbers.

Under migration status on the day we went, there were 8,500 Snow geese at the lake. Since the sun was out, we ran over to take a peek.

Here is a video of the geese appearing to be dancing in the sky, they did not go anywhere, just flew up and gave us a great show before settling back down again.

This video is a single goose hovering over a flock of geese sitting on the ice.

Most of the time the Snow Geese looked like they were napping on the ice of the lake.  In this video they are waddling closer to the group.

I was amused watching what looked like hall monitors walking and honking amongst the flock of Snow Geese sitting on the ice.

Most of the lake was still frozen on this day, but we did see 2 seperate groups of Geese.

Normally, we have the best luck at sunrise or dinner time, but on this day we saw this awesome flock at about 1pm mountain time.

There were a lot of Canadian Geese on their nests in the area and also various other ducks, gulls and such,

but the Snow Geese stole the show.