Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:18:46 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kerry Stone Subject: One last thing re: Greater WF Goose/Greylag at Lake Artemesia 3-10-02 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Okay, I see now I was wrong. I am surprised, however, that Sibley's guide isn't more thorough regarding these two geese. The other field marks I saw on the goose were an eye ring (same color as the bill), and there was a faint white tip on the bill. None of the guides I scanned through noted this marks. However, today, I looked in Peterson's Eastern Birds and he noted these two marks. I'm surprized Sibley didn't note these marks, it would've made identification easier. Second item. Peterson notes the Greylag as an accidental Eurasion species, noting it can come over on a boat. How does a birder treat a sighting like this? I read in one of the earlier posts something about a "barnyard goose." Is that what this is considered - an escapee? Thanks in advance for your input. Best wishes, Kerry Stone Takoma Park, MD Montgomery County kerryzelda@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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================