I spent a few days in late January at my family’s farm in Perry County, Ill., where I once again found several 40-acre corn stubble fields filled with snow geese.
Flocks made up of thousands of birds were rotating in and out of stalks, occasionally taking flight over surrounding coal mine land and water-filled strip pits dotting the area. There was no reason for me to be surprised – light geese have been wintering on fields there for decades.
