Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1920 — WATER FOWL OFF TO NORTH [ARTICLE]

WATER FOWL OFF TO NORTH

Migration From Susquehanna Flats in Maryland Takes All Night. Port Deposit, Md. —The spring migration of water fowl from the Susquehanna flats began a few nights ago and continued for several hours, more than half a million wild geese, swans and ducks getting away for their summer quarters and breeding places in the far North. The exodus for the Arctic regions began at 9 p. m. —night always being chosen for departure—and.lasted until almost daylight the next morning, when probably every migratory fowl quit its winter quarters, in the Susquehanna and the Chesapeake. It was Interesting to npte the orderly precedence of the wild birds. As if on a signal the geese were the first to rise out of the water, nearly all at the same moment, from all sections of the upper bay reaches here —and after wheeling In circles two or three times at a height of 60 or more feet, made a spiral-like climb, and on reaching an altitude of 600 feet, broke into little groups and, spreading out In V shape, followed their leaders and were soon lost to view.