This is bird note.

In summer, snow geese nest in the Arctic and subarctic from far northeastern Russia to Greenland,

but in winter some may spend the season near you.

Here's how author and naturalist Barry Lopez describes the flight of snow geese.

I remember watching a large flock rise one morning from a plowed field about a mile distant.

I'd been watching clouds, the soft, buoyant,

wind-blown edges of immaculate cumulus.

The birds rose against much darker clouds to the east.

There was something vaguely ominous in this apparition,

as if the earth had opened,

poured them forth, like a wind, a blizzard,

which unfurled across the horizon above the dark soil, becoming wider

and higher in the sky than my field of vision could encompass.

Great swirling currents of birds in a rattling of wings,

one fluid recurved sweep of 10,000

passing through the open spaces in another,

counter-flying flock,

while beyond them,

Laddis after lattice passed like sliding walls, until in the

whole sky you lost your depth of field and felt as though you were looking up from the floor

of the ocean through shoals of fish.

To view an amazing video and find out where you too might see snow geese,

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