![snow geese heading north](https://amanandhishoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/snowgeese-a.jpg)
A series of trivial events put me on Bow Hill Road at the spot at 4:12 p.m. this afternoon where a large flock of Snow Geese crossed overhead on their way north. First, I forgot to take some mail with me when I made deliveries this morning. So I had to bicycle down to the post office in the afternoon.
I would have passed by the spot earlier and missed the Snow Geese, but the tires on my bicycle were low, so I had to pump air into them.
![snow geese heading north](https://amanandhishoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/snowgeese-b.jpg)
A few other forgettable events delayed me a minute here, a minute there. But not so much that I didn’t have the time to stop when I heard the Snow Geese approaching. The Bow Post Office closes at 4:30 p.m. However, I was within minutes of the post office, so I had the time to stop and enjoy the sight of the Snow Geese leaving. Was this their final flight out of the Skagit Valley? I don’t know. But in the direction they were flying, there’s no flat land to land until the other side of the Chuckanuts.
![snow geese heading north](https://amanandhishoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/snowgeese-c.jpg)
The peculiar thing about Snow Geese is the meandering threads they form in the sky when they fly. They don’t make the perfect V formations of Canada Geese. They fly in such numbers that their meandering lines can stretch for miles.
And I would have missed the spectacle if I had remembered to take the mail with me this morning.