Nature Notes From Crater Lake
Volume 6, No. 4, September 1933
Crater Oddities
Geese Rest on Crater Lake
By Ranger Dwight A. French
On the last day of August a great flock
of geese was observed on the surface of Crater Lake. The next morning
they resumed their flight south. The geese were Canadian Honkers which
migrate with the changes in seasons. This particular species breed and
hatch their young in northern Canada each summer and when the weather
gets cold in the fall they migrate to a warmer clime.
Water fowl never stay long on Crater
Lake because there is a lack of adequate food and their presence here
occurs either in early fall or spring. When geese start south in August
and early September old timers shake their heads and predict an early
and hard winter.
