Showing posts with label Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Show all posts

Sunday, March 08, 2009

Spring Migration Continues
You otter've been there! It was more than just geese today. Sunrise, deer, and otters. A truly beautiful morning.

Aleutian Geese

Spring Migration

The Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge opened its gates at 6 a.m. this weekend to allow the public to watch thousands of geese wake up and take off on their way north. There are up to 90,000 geese that come through Humboldt County on the Pacific Flyway, an "aerial highway" used during migration. That's a far cry from their status in the early 1970s when they were on the brink of extinction.

Both days were beautiful--but today, Sunday, the clouds reflecting off the water during sunrise made for some fabulous photo ops.