Sigrid,
   Congratulations on your White-fronted Goose.  We are always interested in knowing which subspecies is being found here.  Did your bird have a pink bill or an orange bill.  Also, was it an adult or immature and what was the size compared to the Canadas?  Thanks.

Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD

 
---- Sigrid Stiles <> wrote: 
> For as long as I've lived here I've searched the flocks of Canada Geese for a 
> Greater White-fronted Goose. This year there are the fewest geese I can 
> recall in the area. Today, there were about 200 Canadas on the fast disappearing 
> ice in front of our house. Among them were one domestic goose & one 
> Greater-white Fronted! Not only a yard bird, an ABA area bird for me.
> 
> Also seen, the raft of about 65 Canvasbacks, a pair of Hooded Mergansers, a 
> half dozen Buffleheads, about as many Ruddy Ducks & dozens of Ring-bills & a 
> handful of Herring Gulls. Plus ene Great Blue, who looked happy that the ice is 
> breaking up.
> 
> Sigrid Stiles
> St. Jerome Creek
> Dameron, St. Mary's Co