If you try for these, I suggest carefully parking off Hwy 17 and then 
walking on the one lane road that residents use that runs by the pond.  
Otherwise you will be blocking residents' access and/or making ruts in 
the lawn.  For the pond location you can click on the map link on the 
sighting listed on the eBird google gadget here:  
http://www.montgomerybirdclub.org/LocalBirds.html  (For some reason my 
sighting isn't showing up on the gadget yet, but others' are).

Jim Moore

On 1/1/2012 7:27 PM, Jim Moore wrote:
> Visited Kershner's Pond in Frederick county today hoping to see the 
> previously reported Snow Geese.  Instead found 4 Ross's Geese, showing 
> the round heads and short, stubby, blue-based bills with no "grin 
> patch" that are characteristic of the species.  I also found at least 
> one Cackling Goose among 1800 Canadas.  Photos of the Ross's Geese are 
> here:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/35716495@N08/?saved=1
>
>   Chuck Parker came after I arrived and helped to confirm the ID of 
> this rare-in-the-Piedmont species.  Thanks also to Bill Hubick for 
> confirming after the fact.  Others who have reported Snow Geese from 
> this pond recently may want to reevaluate their IDs.
>
> Good birding!
> Jim Moore
> Rockville, Maryland
> PLEASE REPORT YOUR BIRD SIGHTINGS to http://ebird.org/

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