After Ann left, several people gathered up near the large rock with the K-M plaque.
Finally, the PINK FOOTED GOOSE started moving around enough that we got good looks at its whole body, brown head and bright pink legs. It appeared to start foraging and sometimes when it got close to certain CANADA GEESE one of those would poke at the PF Goose and it would move away, so we got to see it walking around a bit. It flapped its wings a couple times, too. Finally, it went off into taller grass behind some milkweed plants on the side of the tire tracks away from the water and became more difficult to see again. When we first arrived at K-M on East Rd. to see a cluster of cars and a small forest of scopes, my sister and I remarked that we knew just where to go and that it resembled the "Moose Jams" we see in Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario. When AP park visitors spot moose off Highway 60, they all pull off the road and hop out of cars with cameras and binocs to look at the moose. Sometimes there are 25 or more vehicles lining the highway in one spot, so as you approach you know a moose is there somewhere. So, today we joined a "Goose Jam". Donna Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: Ann Mitchell To: cayugabirds-l Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 9:35 PM Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Pink-footed Goose It was seen at 3:00-5:00 at Knox Marcellus on the dike across from Knox Marcellus. Most of us saw a buffy breast with a brown neck. It put it's head up every once in awhile. You could see the pink in the bill. It did stand up once while I was there and showed light colored legs. I hope a lot of folks IDed it. Cool bird! Good Birding, Ann -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
