Starts Sept 1st here and runs through December but the geese are all gone by the end of October. Migrations don't start coming in till around first of October. Our daily limit is 5 honkers and 20 snows. The possession limit is now up to 25 honkers (regs last year said 24 but I think everyone conceeded that number was a typo). It looks to me like our honker numbers (both locals and migratory) are holding (still at extremely high!) but the snows have been decreasing significantly here. However, I think they attribute it to shifts in the flyway pattern. Flyway shifts have been recorded for about as long as the birds have been banded (I'm guessing close to 100 years) but as far as I know no one has yet figured out why.

Ithaca, does that mean I should expect a knock at the door?

There is a right side, but we are a depressed city for a number of reasons. Lot of gang shootings in the inner city. Growing up here was a lot of fun though, at one time we had countless pheasants along the rxr track beds and in the abandoned fields right in the city. You didn't have to go far to get your dog on birds and we'd always run into old-timers running their beagles on rabbits. The fishing is good too, but you have to find your spots. It was rural farmland just a 25 minute drive for many years, but that's changed too. Reading about the wild pheasants that we USED to have is almost like torture, but we still have lots of waterfowl, deer and turkeys.
Buffalo wings? they're okay, but in a city where you could get the best Italian, German, Polish and Soul ( usually in a Mom-Pop corner place) food never more then a few blocks from any direction, wings never were a big deal for me. OH, it's always good to talk with you.