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<\/a>A few weeks ago I took a ride up to the California\/Oregon border to visit the Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge Complex. You can read my posts on two of these refuges over at the Wildlife Conservation Stamp website.
\nThis state wildlife area is just south of the town of Klamath Falls, Oregon, and is a prime staging area in the late winter and early spring for migrating Ross’s, Snow, and White-fronted Geese.<\/p>\n
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Currently, about 95 percent of all Ross’s Geese nest in the Queen Maud Gulf Migratory Bird Sanctuary in the central Canadian Arctic and the main wintering area for them is the California Central Valley1<\/sup>.<\/p>\n \n It was late afternoon and I was heading back to California after driving around Upper Klamath Lake which still had so much snow on the ground most of the roads into the lake were impassible for me. I saw the sign for the wildlife area on highway 97 and turned in.<\/p>\n \n I’m glad that I did because there were hundreds of acres of agricultural fields where the Ross’s Geese were foraging with Greater White-fronted Geese and a few Snow Geese.<\/p>\n \n There were huge flocks, hundreds and hundreds of Ross’s Geese, flying in to take part in this feeding frenzy before the sun went down.<\/p>\n \n