BRAINERD — I love to listen to the banter of Canada geese that four times per year declare their presence as they pass overhead.

What? Geese don’t migrate four times per year?

Yes, they do, and one of those voyages is happening now.

During the past two weeks or so you may have witnessed migrating flocks of Canada geese and wondered what was happening. Is the early onset of warm weather this spring the cause of this late movement of geese?

Most of us with an eye and ear toward the outdoors are aware of the brunt of Canada geese stream northward in March and April, basically pushing the snow line as they go. Those same geese, along with their newly fledged young, return on the wings of a north wind during October and November. Most of those birds are a goose subspecies called Interior Ca

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