Sherry,
   I have studied your pictures of the small goose and I believe it is the resident runt Canada Goose that has been there for years. I believe the bill is too long to be one of the races of Cackling Goose. Since I may be wrong I hope others will look at your photos and express an opinion.
--
Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD

 
---- Sherry <> wrote: 
> I'm sorry I didn't get to post this earlier -- I had computer trouble 
> and was unable to get online. These sightings are from Wednesday, Oct. 
> 19, at Centennial Lake in Howard County.
> 
> The Redhead reported by June on Oct. 18 was still present. There was 
> also an American Wigeon (calling almost constantly), and a small race goose.
> 
> I got photos of all three. I can't do digiscoping, but they were close 
> enough to get some reasonably decent pictures with my 3X zoom.
> 
> The Redhead and the Wigeon are on this page:  
> http://flyaway.smugmug.com/gallery/128959/2 
> (if you go to the top of the page and switch the style to "traditional", 
> you can see the caption under each thumbnail and it's easier to tell 
> which photo is which).
> 
> The photos of the small race goose start on this page and continue onto 
> the next page:  http://flyaway.smugmug.com/gallery/74843  
> It's the smallest "Canada" goose I've ever seen, not much bigger than a 
> mallard -- there are three photos of it with a normal-sied mallard for 
> size comparison, in addition to seven different views of the goose. 
> (There was a flock of normal-sized Canadas nearby, but the small race 
> goose wouldn't go near them, and I couldn't get it in the same shot with 
> another goose.)
> 
> You can choose the size of the photo you want to view -- thumbnail, 
> small, medium, large and original. (The full-resolution original size is 
> 2048x1536.)
> 
> If anyone can tell what that goose is -- especially if it's something 
> unusual -- please let me know!
> 
> Sherry
> nightheron =at= despammed =dot= com