Depending on snow cover and spring runoff, there is this very special valley in Saskatchewan that will hold all waterfowl species and many migrating shore birds. For me an avid bird watcher, when the Gods have decided to give the Prairies good water, the farmer are delighted and so are the migrating birds. Within the Valley, all flyways, except the Eastern are represented here. The birds gather meet their cousin they haven't seen since last falls staging and like most Prairies Canadian , they know how to party. The song fest will last all night and day until winter comes to the Praires and like many Canadians after the harvest is done, Thanksgiving Dinner serves to family they are off to warmer climates.
All night the geese, ducks, cranes and snipes drink at their roost. Although not the Canadian Rye, there has to be something in the water to make them so happy, fat and content.
My Prairie farmer friends called me early September. "Get up here and get these frigging birds off my crop." This year was a very late harvest. It was bountiful, the price was solid and the geese were taken 6-9 acres a day from my bachelor friend Kevin. Crop Insurance would only cover so much so they needed our pest control methods
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beautiful pictures
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