Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 19:39:44 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Ralph Wall Subject: Re: Very small form Canada almost in Maryland MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 2/9/2002 3:07:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, mozurk@BELLATLANTIC.NET writes: > When I returned to the bridge about 11:30, the small goose, now absent, > was replace by a nice Blue Goose. Yet another fine bird almost within > sight of DC (and PG) waters. > > This might have been the hybrid Canada x Snow (or Canada x domestic) which many have observed in their quests of the Barnacle in the Belle Haven area. There is also another hybrid that looks most like a Canada x White-fronted being seen from time to time among the Canadas. So we have two hybrids, the B*******, and the new small goose. What's going on here? Maybe a hole in some collector's fencing? Ralph Wall Great Falls, Va. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================