Snow geese take off Sunday afternoon on Golf Road in West Penn Township. According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, snow geese don’t like to travel without the company of another couple dozen geese and can form flocks of several hundred thousand. Family groups forage together on wintering grounds, digging up roots and tubers from muddy fields and marshes. In flight, they are steady on the wing with even wing beats. COPYRIGHT LARRY NEFF/SPECIAL TO THE TIMES NEWS