Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 16:20:04 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Toni & Bob Hartman Subject: Re: Out of Area Oddity MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The Canada Geese that nest at NASA Goddard (quite a few) seem to have a "baby-sitting" system. I've seen adult pairs with as many as 15 young following. It seems unlikely one nest produced all of those. However, most of the geese there are resident, non-migratory. Bob Hartman Colesville, MD Bob Mumford wrote: > This past week I was in North Park, Colorado working the Sage Grouse morning > dances and drove by the edge of Walden Reservoir. I was very surprised to see > a Canada Goose adult followed by 13, 1-3 day old goslings, followed by the > other parent and then 2 more goslings, for a total of 15 young. > > Never having witnessed anywhere near this number of young, upon return I > checked the Audubon Encyclopedia of North American Birds and it says 2-12 eggs. > The Birders Handbook states 4-10. > > Anyone ever hear of 15? Explanation? > > BTW, I did report it to the local DOW office. > > Bob Mumford > Darnestown > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================