Wild Wings in Choteau Montana, Celebrate the Spring Snow Geese Migrations!
The arrival of snow geese at Freezout Lake is a springtime ritual rivaled by few outdoor experiences. Snow geese stop here to rest and refuel as they migrate from their wintering areas in central California to their nesting colonies in the Canadian arctic. Freezout Lake is Montana’s primary snow goose staging area, a place where as many as 300,000 snow geese and 10,000 tundra swans gather and rest before flying onward. In Spring, the snow geese head for Alberta and central Saskatchewan in Canada. There they mass with hundreds of thousands of other snow geese from Texas and other Gulf Coast States. In a series of shorter flights, the geese then make their way to nesting grounds on the wind swept, extreme northwest Arctic coast of Canada.
Stage Stop Inn and Dropstone Outfitting are working together to bring you the 1st Annual Wild Wings weekend celebration, March 22 – 24, 2019.
Check out this short clip about Freezout Lake.
Wild Wings, Freezout Lake Bird Migration.
Hourly Schedule
- Friday, March 22, From 7pm - To 9pm
- Winged Migration
- Short movie about the bird migration showing at the Stage Stop Inn
- Saturday, March 23, from 6:30am - To 10:30am
- Guided Tours of Freezout Lake
- Guided tour of Freezout Lake, the epicenter of snow geese activity in the area. FREE! Meet in the lobby of the Stage Stop Inn. Dropstone Outfitting has van space available for $5 or you may take your own vehicle.
- Saturday, March 23, From 1pm - To 3pm
- White Geese Over Montana
- Presentation by Mike Schwitters, world re-known master birder. FREE! Located at the Stage Stop Inn's Breakfast Room.
- Saturday, March 23, From 5:30pm - To 8:30pm
- Old Trail Museum's Wild Game Feed
- This is the annual fundraiser for the Old Trail Museum. Admission is free will donation. Potluck dinner with wild game and non-game dishes, silent auction, live auction, and a 50/50 drawing. Located at the Stage Stop Inn's Rocky Mountain Convention Center.
- Sunday, March 24, From 6:30am - To 10:30am
- Guided Tours of Freezout Lake
- Guided tour of Freezout Lake, the epicenter of snow geese activity in the area. FREE! Meet in the lobby of the Stage Stop Inn. Dropstone Outfitting has van space available for $5 or you may take your own vehicle.