{"id":614745,"date":"2026-02-25T08:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/614745\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:50:12","slug":"snow-geese-flock-to-middle-creek-wildlife-management-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/614745\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow geese flock to Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThousands of snow geese have arrived at the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area near the Lancaster-Lebanon County line, with the Pennsylvania Game Commission reporting a count of 60,000 this morning.Video from the visitor center manager shows the birds arriving around 6:30 a.m.The game commission said Tuesday morning&#8217;s snow goose count was 60,000, after being in the low thousands over the weekend.Last year&#8217;s peak day saw 100,000 snow geese.A spokesman said with warmer daytime temperatures predicted, they will be watching to see if the birds linger or continue pushing north, with just a short stopover at Middle Creek. The snow geese appearance is three weeks past last year&#8217;s arrival.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of snow geese have arrived at the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area near the Lancaster-Lebanon County line, with the Pennsylvania Game Commission reporting a count of 60,000 this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Video from the visitor center manager shows the birds arriving around 6:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The game commission said Tuesday morning&#8217;s snow goose count was 60,000, after being in the low thousands over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s peak day saw 100,000 snow geese.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman said with warmer daytime temperatures predicted, they will be watching to see if the birds linger or continue pushing north, with just a short stopover at Middle Creek. <\/p>\n<p>The snow geese appearance is three weeks past last year&#8217;s arrival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of snow geese have arrived at the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area near the Lancaster-Lebanon County line,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":614746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27],"tags":[9761,25236,263554,13940,263555,15978,17354,263559,178271,159,263556,263557,263560,263561,25467,67,132,68,989,38746,263558,2452,9953,837],"class_list":["post-614745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-a-m","tag-bird","tag-lancaster-lebanon-county-line","tag-last-year","tag-middle-creek-wildlife-management-area","tag-morning","tag-north","tag-peak-day","tag-pennsylvania-game-commission","tag-science","tag-snow-geese","tag-snow-geese-flock","tag-snow-goose-count","tag-spokesman","tag-thousand","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-video","tag-visitor-center","tag-visitor-center-manager","tag-week","tag-weekend","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116130416208530479","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}