Photos: Delta Snow Goose Festival

Photos: Delta Snow Goose Festival

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DELTA — The annual Delta Snow Goose Festival was held Friday and Saturday, giving residents and tourists an opportunity to see thousands of migrating white snow geese.

The snow goose is a migratory bird that spends its summers in Canada and its winters in the southern United States and Mexico, according to the Division of Wildlife Resources website. During the northern migration, thousands of snow geese pass through Utah and congregate near Delta for a “rest stop,” the DWR said.

DWR employee Lynn Chamberlain said the geese come in groups, and from February to March around 40,000 geese pass through Delta. There have been as many as 25,000 snow geese in the area at one time, Chamberlain said, and around 12,000 of the birds were in the area Saturday morning.

The geese eat grains, grasses and aquatic plants and are known to feed at the agricultural fields south of Delta and at Gunnison Bend Reservoir. The birds flock together and create quite a spectacle when they fly.

Along with viewing snow geese, the festival also included 5K and 10K races, a skeet shoot, and a craft fair and quilt show.

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