Show a T f. f W Waler aler l Levels e CS Hamper Ill er f t Goose Banding a I l Flightless Canada geese on northern Utah marshlands were the object of Division o of ofFish Fish and Game biologists' biologists attention attention at at- at- at during last weeks week's goose banding operations BANDING o operations P orations were conducted on six areas and a total of birds were banded Canada geese arc are flightless for a time lime during midsummer summer as they molt their flight feathers feath feath- ers following the breeding and nesting period The goslings are bi big g enough g h at al this time lime lobe to lo be safely handled and banded along with the adults WORKING from airboats i biologists are able to capture capture- I the birds in the water or drive them to traps on shore Each bird is checked as to age and sex fitted filled with a metal leg band and released I TOO MUCH water in southern southern southern south south- ern Utah in areas where biologists biologists biologists usually band a number of geese made it impossible to attempt banding operations this y year year ar in rn this area Fewer birds were captured on the Bear River in rn Rich County because of the extremely extreme extreme- ly high water levels r. r 1 BIRDS AT Ogden Bay had had moved far out toward the the- J Gre Great t Salt Pike Lake away from t. t their usual areas areas as a result j I of hi high gh w wa wafer afe r r levels which v I n flooded oded areas areas' no normally m lly dry i in I mid midsummer r Bio banded 72 geeser geese I Ii r i on one new new area this summer t to t ili ie northwest of Willa Bay c. c t II Sz If |