Fir Island Farm and Leque Island: when each site’s manager says snow geese are there, the festival and directions to each.
The months are each site manager’s own, quoted and linked below with the day they were read.
The reserve attracts tens of thousands of snow geese each year between October and April.Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, read October 13, 2026. Read it at the source
In winter, waterfowl, including snow geese, may be viewed.Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, read October 13, 2026. Read it at the source
1 of the 2 mapped sites has snow geese in October. A pin takes a color only in the months the refuge or agency that runs it gives for snow geese. The shaded grid is where people have logged a verified snow or Ross’s goose on iNaturalist in October, in any year, brighter where more have been logged; it maps reports, so it thickens where observers stand.
ArrivingWashington, October
October is snow goose season at Fir Island Farm.
Between October and April each year, Fir Island Farm attracts tens of thousands of snow geese, shorebirds, and other waterfowl species.Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, read October 13, 2026. Read it at the source
Each winter this delta serves as a significant refuge for waterfowl, including core habitat for trumpeter swans and snow geese within the Pacific Flyway.Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, read October 13, 2026. Read it at the source
Each year, the Fir Island area is a winter destination of snow geese migrating from Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia in Russia.Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, read October 13, 2026. Read it at the source
More reports come in March than in any other month. The bars combine every year on record; the twelve month figure runs from October 14, 2025.
201 research grade snow and Ross’s goose reports from Washington in the twelve months to October 14, 2026.
Reading this month’s reports from iNaturalist.
February 27, 2027
Leque Island Unit, Skagit Wildlife Area
Every fact about Washington’s snow geese links to the refuge, agency or festival page it comes from, read on October 13, 2026. Tour routes and viewing areas close for weather, hunts and work, so check the site’s own page before you drive. Report tallies are iNaturalist research grade records of snow and Ross’s geese, which count sightings, not birds. Every state is on the snow goose migration hub.