Wednesday evening as I was waiting for sandhill cranes and Canada geese to come into Sandhole Pond, I heard the unmistakable calls of some snow geese. I could barely see them as they circled high overhead but they finally dropped down to the only water hole. The 31 early birds landed behind a knoll out of my sight, but I could hear their calls mixed with some Canadian honkers.

This was the earliest migration of snows as they usually don’t start migrating through Eastern Idaho until mid-November when the snow forces them south from Canada. Snow geese don’t stay but a day or two during their fall migration and after most of the Sandhill cranes have migrated south to New Mexico. Wednesday evening there were still hundreds of cranes left.

Friday morning, I decided to hike back to Sandhole to

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