Scenes from the flyway. (waterfowl migration)(includes related articles) (The West's Great Fall Migrations) From: Sunset | Date: November 1, 1993| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1993 Sunset Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The sound is what first astonishes you. It has been likened to the ignition of a rocket, the crowd's roar at a football game. As innumerable geese honk and flap and lift off a lake into the chill morning, you may well feel as if you've been plunged into a waterfall of noise.

To see and hear the autumn flight of waterfowl south along the Pacific Flyway--an arbitrary but convenient delineation of bird routes from above the Arctic Circle to Mexico--is to witness one of the West's great spectacles. The photographs on these pages were taken at two flyway stops where ducks and geese ...

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