… as shown above, migrating snow geese as first identified by (1) Group Three veteran fisher/hunter par excellence Chuck “Heleena” Ballweg, followed in order by (2) Group Oner Tarry “Winsome” Winfrey (on his second guess, btw), (3) Group Twoer Lori “Fawn Lady” Ware, and (4) Group Threer (right in order, I might add!) Martin “Madman” O’Malley. Dishonorable mentions go to fellow Oners Winsome (who first replied with “I believe it is birds” and rookie Mike Murray who suggested “a flock of white-tailed Ptarmigan”!!).
As Tarry states, “those of us who did not go to the Napa Concert never would have known”, for what your Hostess and I witnessed this past Saturday with Group One’s Brian “Moraine” Shepard in tow—see next email for Moraine’s wonderful photos—was truly a marvel: the annual migration north of literally tens and tens of thousands of snow geese on their way to the Artic to nest, en masse, only to return their flight come Fall. We saw this spectacle at Freezeout Lake, just northwest of Great Falls, MT, where the geese come to feed on the left overs of the malted barley harvest (gaining up to one third of their six pound body weight in the process).
If you have ever had a Budweiser beer, this is their barley source, so “this geese is for you!”
Congrats, Chuck, a 2002 vintage bottle of Rock Creek Red will be waiting for you upon your E-14 arrival!
What a spectacle this was to behold, folks—mark your calendars now for the November 1, 2014 Montana Matters Napa Concert when next year’s installment of our Freezeout Lake adventure (plus a bunch more cool trips that I am putting together this week) will be auctioned off…ya gotta be there, all, so mark that date on your social calendar because, yes, because it does matter!
Best to all in the after-flutter of it all,
Rock Creek Ron
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