Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:36:05 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Chris Barnard Subject: Greater WF Goose/Greylag at Lake Artemesia 3-10-02 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I went out this morning and found the goose in question after a brief search, the goose was at the southern end of the lake with a large group of canada geese. I got very close looks at this bird and it's behavior seems to indicate that it is tame. It approached me closely and acted as if it expected a hand out. The coloration and lack of any real white front above the beak would indicate that the bird is a Greylag. The bird isn't banded. Chris Barnard Rockville, MD cbarnard52@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================