Spring snows

[shadow]

Saw some near Hwy 2 corridor by Churches Ferry, report I had said tons. That was not true, one smaller group on ground, rest, maybe 1000 were flying in circles. No open water yet. Are the ones by Berthold on the ground or in the air?

 

[Bob Erfish]

There has been no shortage of birds flying over Minot the last few days. The number of snow geese parked on Darling right now is incredible, I've never seen that many birds on one lake in my life.

 

[tikkalover]

To get out of the house, I took a drive up to Lake Darling. Hit up Grano crossing then went up to the Green crossing and then back south to the dam. Seen lots of snows. This is a picture by the dam.

That is not ice, that’s a strip of snows about a half mile wide by a mile long. Driving from the dam East, it was non stop flocks of geese all the way to 83 heading back to Darling.

 

[snowkiller]

Tons of snows above hwy 2

 

[sl1000794]

Huge flock at around 3 o'clock just south of Upham where the pavement turns west toward hwy 83.

 

[tikkalover]

For the last 2 weeks, there was a butt load of snows from 2 miles south of Ruthville to 4 miles north of the base, until the B-52s came back home from Guam yesterday afternoon and made quite a few fly overs around the base. Today I never seen a snow goose.

 

[sl1000794]

For the last 2 weeks, there was a butt load of snows from 2 miles south of Ruthville to 4 miles north of the base, until the B-52s came back home from Guam yesterday afternoon and made quite a few fly overs around the base. Today I never seen a snow goose.

Sucked 'em into each jet's 8 engines and fertilized the glide path into Minot Air Force Base!!!

 

[LBrandt]

Like one goose said to the other " you see the size of that hawk".

 

[tikkalover]

And the goose replied "yes, yes, I did and it’s really big"!!



Took this today........Holy shit these things are loud when they fly over that low.

 

[sl1000794]

And the goose replied "yes, yes, I did and it’s really big"!!



Took this today........Holy shit these things are loud when they fly over that low.

No noise abatement on Military planes like there is on commercial ones. All power is gitty-up-go!!!

 

[Traxion]

They don't hold a candle to a B-1B in terms of noise. I lived around Ellsworth and there were two times when the sound was incredible. First was cold winter nights, those nights when sound goes forever. They usually go in pairs and a full afterburner takeoff just roars. The second is the ever tightening touch and go sequence they did every now and then. They'd start with a big loop after their first T & G, then the loop would tighten each time they did one. They usually looped around the main houses, but when doing this they came RIGHT over the house. I think I could read their helmets sometimes. If the wind was from the southeast, that meant full afterburners on the climbing turn. Damn near blows your ears out. I never complained, I loved watching them!

 

[AR-15]

You people that are to young to remember back in the 60's the Sound Barrier Booms everyday 7 days a week that would shake every building in town, remember in school the the white flakes that would come down from the ceiling, those Booms were loud, would be kinda neat if they would do a few so people would hear what they sound like. There wasn't many Snow Geese here in the sixty's just wonder what they would do now.