I agree that the white geese I saw Thursday were domestic geese, no question. Here is a photo of the strange "Canada-style" goose I saw the same day:
Stephen Jones
Bethesda, MD
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From: Jim Stasz <>
To: MDOSPREY <>
Sent: Thu, Dec 30, 2010 10:52 pm
Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Black Hills Reg. Park, 12/30
I photographed a near albino Canada Goose at Black Hills in November. All
eathers white, pink bill, pink legs, dark eye.
Jim Stasz
orth Beach MD
Jim Moore <> wrote:
>Hi Steve,
I don't know you, but Snow Geese in Montgomery County would be quite
unusual though not unprecedented. (Only one confirmed eBird record over
the past two years--and those were flyovers). Black Hill has lot's of
hybrid and domestic geese, which have been misidentified as other goose
species in the past. If you or others posting here believe you saw a
Snow Goose in the county, it would be much appreciated if you could
provide details of how you identified it and where it was seen. (I'm
posting this because there have also been other posts reporting Snow
Geese at this location recently, but no other info was provided, so
they've been hard to evaluate).
Thanks,
Jim Moore
Rockville, MD
On 12/30/2010 8:40 PM, Stephen Jones wrote:
> We saw 11 different species of duck (immature Long-tail which landed right in
ront of us was the standout!) in good numbers near the visitor's center. There
ere also some Snow Geese and Domestic Geese, mixed in with the grazing Canadas,
s well as a strange goose which resembled a Canada Goose (x Domestic?) hybrid
black bill and neck and proportions of CG,but white head and lower neck (where
G neck would still be black) and yellow-orange feet.
>
> The woods were also full of birds: Brown Creeper, Winter Wren, GC Kinglet,
B Sapsucker, YR Warbler, Bluebird, and the usual feeder crowd. Two adult Bald
agles were perched by the dam across from the pull-off at the Boyds end of the
auseway.
>
> Stephen and Liz Jones
> Bethesda, MD
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