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ARE YOU READY FOR THE SNOWS? (Geese that is!)

Unlike most March snows, the arrival of snows at the Pennsylvania Game Commission's Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area - along the Lebanon/Lancaster county line - is one seasonal event thousands upon thousands of people await anxiously.

About 80,000 snow geese currently are holding at Middle Creek and that number likely will grow - there are no guarantees - in coming weeks as warmer weather and longer daylight hours compel migratory waterfowl to pull their winter roots on the Chesapeake Bay and points south into the Carolinas to head north to breed and nest. Last year, in the second week of March, an estimated 180,000 snow geese congregated at Middle Creek, an important waterfowl staging area developed, managed and owned by the Game Commission.

Loosely lifted from the story at this site... www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?A=11&Q=173666