“While we strive to provide harvest opportunity when appropriate, winter counts below the 3,000-bird threshold in Skagit County require us to restrict hunting opportunities for this unique coastal ...

North Saanich photographer Christy Grinton was surprised to see a few black Brant geese on Jan. 6 while she was at Island View Beach. “At first there were just three or four of them and then came more ...

The other native geese species — the brant and emperor — are almost strictly coastal, so highly uncommon this far inland. The brant, subspecies Atlantic on the east coast and black on the West ...