The Snow Goose fun continues near Ocean City.
On the way to the grocery store this evening, the field northeast of the
intersection of Racetrack Road (589) and Route 113 had a flock of over
20,000 Snow Geese. Due to a lack of gloves and biting wind, just a quick
scan of the flock turned up a collared goose closer to the road.
A3E5, adult female, August 2007, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada
Further north along Bishopville Road between Route 113 and Bishopville, a
flock of very photogenic Snow Geese, about 5,000 strong, were spread across
a corn field on the north side of the road, with the majority of the flock
right along the road shoulder across the drainage ditch. Active hunting of
this flock seemed likely, however, with the presence of several empty pickup
trucks pulled off the road, so in the falling light I didn't do much careful
scoping of this flock even as I couldn't see any well camouflaged hunters.
This brings the count of publicly ID-ed collared Snow Geese up to 8 in the
last week alone, and this is without careful scoping of these most recent
flocks.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Alexander Baish <> wrote:
> It seems this Eastern Shore is teeming with neck-banded geese! Today just
> south of Chesapeake College, in the fields between Route 50 and Grange Hall
> Road, I scoped a flock of over 500 Snow and 300 Canada Geese. Light was
> failing in the evening, so a comprehensive examination of the Canada Geese
> was impossible, but a quick scan didn't turn up unusual brown geese. There
> was one ROSS'S GOOSE and 4 neck-banded Snow Geese amongst the white geese.
> This flock was exchanging geese with another group of about 500 Snow Geese
> at the 2.0 Mile Marker along Route 404, so a Ross's could conceivably be in
> either group.
>
> RJ90, adult female, August 2009, Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada
> 65CE, adult female, May 2009, Īle-aux-oies, Quebec, Canada
> RF15, adult female, August 2009, Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada
> RK58, adult female, August 2009, Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada
>
> I encountered well over 2000 more Snow Geese between 3 separate flocks
> strung along 404 between where it breaks off of Route 50 and Denton, so
> there could be no end to the fun for adventurous types out there searching
> for neck bands. I would be very interested to know how many different neck
> banded birds people encounter over the course of this winter and from where
> they've come.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Amanda Spears <>wrote:
>
>> I entered band numbers from some geese in the backyard on 12/31, and
>> found out that AE70 was banded on Aug 1990! I'm not sure how long Snow Geese
>> live, but 20 years? That's awesome. Also found out it visited MD back in
>> 1992 on 12/29.
>>
>> Thanks for the link and I hope everyone else is looking out and entering
>> in their snow goose bands.
>>
>> Amanda Spears
>>
>> Sent from my iPod
>>
>> On Jan 5, 2010, at 8:38 AM, Joe Hanfman <> wrote:
>>
>> > Here is the link to search Snow Goose collars.
>> >
>> > http://www.cen.ulaval.ca/gon-gsg/en_recherche.php
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > A1H1 adult female, Aug 2007, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada
>> >
>> > 26AT adult female, May 2008, Ile-aux-oies, Quebec, Canada
>> >
>> > PK00 adult female, Aug 2007, Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Joe Hanfman
>> >
>> > Columbia, MD
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Norm Saunders" <>
>> > To:
>> > Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2010 3:32:19 AM GMT -05:00 Colombia
>> > Subject: [MDOSPREY] FW: Please post
>> >
>> > From Peter Kaestner:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > While looking unsuccessfully for the Northern Shrike on Friday (I > did
>> see a
>> > well fed Cooper's at the end of Kibler Rd.) I saw a massive flock of >
>> Snow
>> > Geese along McGinnes Rd (Md 544), about 500 yards East of the corner >
>> of
>> > Kibler and 544 at sunset. In the flock of some 10,000 birds were >
>> three with
>> > yellow neck rings, numbers: A1H1, 26AT and PK00.
>> > Peter Kaestner
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Alex Baish
> Ocean City, MD (home)
> Baltimore, MD (work/school)
>
>
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Alex Baish
Ocean City, MD (home)
Baltimore, MD (work/school)
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