Hundreds of Geese in Flight

Snow Geese and Greater White-fronted Geese near Lake LaShane. February 27, 2026.

Hundreds of Greater White-fronted Geese and Snow Geese have been in the Lamoni Iowa area. These geese are flying in all kinds of directions over a corn field, looking for a place to land.

Snow Geese and Greater White-fronted Geese near Lake LaShane. 5:59 pm, February 27, 2026.

This image is cropped from the center of the image at the top. The five geese on the horizon in this image are about 1/3 of the way from the right edge in the photo above.

Snow Geese and Greater White-fronted Geese near Lake LaShane. 6:03 pm, February 27, 2026.

After flying in all kinds of different directions, all of a sudden the geese were all flying in the same direction in a giant “V” shaped formation. It was remarkable. It was just chance that a jet was flying by high overhead.  This photo was taken only 4 minutes after the sunset image.