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<blockquote data-quote="dean nelson" data-source="post: 46227" data-attributes="member: 1305">This is out of the paper in Houston. If you have never hunted a bust year they make normal year snows look stupid! If you going up north I would make ducks or darks the priority not the snows. That said with a bust year you can look for them to run a week or two faster then normal.[QUOTE.] The longer white-front season this year could be a savior for goose hunters on Texas coastal prairies. While early reports from nesting grounds indicate &quot;specks&quot; are seeing at least average success in producing goslings, reports from some of the main snow and Ross's goose nesting colonies in the Arctic and sub-Arctic suggest white geese nesting efforts were an almost complete bust.The combination of persistent cold temperatures that delayed spring &quot;green up&quot; resulting in mass loss of goslings to starvation on some colonies. At other colonies, peak hatching of goslings coincided with a siege of cold, rainy weather than saw most hatchlings succumb to hypothermia. At some colonies, icy conditions hung on much longer than normal, preventing geese from nesting.Researchers banding molting geese at one colony had a single gosling among the 1,400 geese they rounded up. At another colony where researchers documented 73 percent nesting success in 2014, snow-goose nesting success this year was 6 percent.</blockquote>[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="dean nelson, post: 46227, member: 1305"] This is out of the paper in Houston. If you have never hunted a bust year they make normal year snows look stupid! If you going up north I would make ducks or darks the priority not the snows. That said with a bust year you can look for them to run a week or two faster then normal. [QUOTE.] The longer white-front season this year could be a savior for goose hunters on Texas coastal prairies. While early reports from nesting grounds indicate "specks" are seeing at least average success in producing goslings, reports from some of the main snow and Ross's goose nesting colonies in the Arctic and sub-Arctic suggest white geese nesting efforts were an almost complete bust. The combination of persistent cold temperatures that delayed spring "green up" resulting in mass loss of goslings to starvation on some colonies. At other colonies, peak hatching of goslings coincided with a siege of cold, rainy weather than saw most hatchlings succumb to hypothermia. At some colonies, icy conditions hung on much longer than normal, preventing geese from nesting. Researchers banding molting geese at one colony had a single gosling among the 1,400 geese they rounded up. At another colony where researchers documented 73 percent nesting success in 2014, snow-goose nesting success this year was 6 percent. [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE]

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