Snow Goose Festival wings through weekend
The 13th annual Snow Goose Festival β a celebration of the migrating birds that winter in the Sacramento Valley β began Thursday and continues through the weekend.
Snow Goose Festival takes flight in Butte, Glenn counties
The 13th annual Snow Goose Festival β a celebration of the migrating birds that winter in the Sacramento Valley β began Thursday and continues through the weekend.
Sequim spraying goose repellant on park grounds
SEQUIM, Wash. (AP) β The city of Sequim (skwim) spent $4,000 to buy 16 gallons of goose repellant. City employees are spraying parks to deter Canada geese that foul the grounds with their droppings.
Snow Goose Festival offers free activities
CHICO β While hundreds of people will be trekking around the north state in search of migratory birds in the wilds, there will be plenty of opportunity in town to learn more about the Pacific Flyway and its feathered travelers.
Search is on for goose with arrow in breast
OLYMPIA β A state wildlife rescue group is asking people in the Olympia area to help watch for a Canada goose with an arrow through its breast. Workers with the state and the For Heavenβs Sake Wildlife Rescue in a small boat tried to grab the bird Wednesday afternoon in Capitol Lake, but it flew away.
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Thursday, February 2, 2012 2:08 PM CST As part of 2012 Catholic Schools Week, eight U.S. Marines from the Military Police Detachment Unit in Wahpeton visited St. John's Catholic School Wednesday to conduct a flag-folding ceremony for students.
End of good season is wild, cool
Dennis Landahl goes where the wild goose goes. Landahl, a West Seneca resident, travels to likely goose-hunting spots all around Western New York. The Frankie Laine song "Cry of the Wild Goose" offers lyric options "a wanderin' fool or a heart at rest."
Hunting snow geese is like a work of art
If you've never hunted snow geese before, there's something quite beautiful and amazing that unfolds before your eyes the very first time you pursue the birds. Laying in wait amid the decoys, looking up at the sky in anticipation of their arrival, it's like staring at and into a work of art.
Searchers watching for goose with arrow at Olympia
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) β An Olympia wildlife rescue group is asking the public to help watch for a Canada goose with an arrow through its breast. David Supensky of For Heaven's Sake Wildlife Rescue and several state workers in a small boat tried to grab the bird Wednesday afternoon in Capitol Lake but it flew away.