Make what you will of this, but today (12 Nov. 2012) between noon and 1 pm I�saw a goose in with a flock of very talkative Canadas that I took to be�a Snow Goose, seeing it only from behInd, and based on its size.� Finally, when it turned around, I was shocked to see that everything about the head screamed Ross' Goose.� It had a very short bill with no grin and the way the beak met the face was exactly as depicted in books and like the two previous Ross' I've seen here.� The head also had a roundish, Ring-billed Gull-like shape and there wasn't a speck of yellow anywhere on it.� The problem is that it appeared to be only a little smaller than the Canadas.� In fact, I swear there was one Canada that it even looked larger than (but nothing about that bird looked like a Richardson's).� I don't know how much variation there can be in Ross' Geese, but this bird didn't even look like a hybrid.� This was in the southern end of Jug Bay, seen from my
bucket.
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Danny Bystrak
Brisyol, AA Co.
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