Oops...that's separate 10 collared birds including the two from Blackwater
not in this thread...
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Alexander Baish <> wrote:
> 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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