Dear Cobirders, This morning (2/4/09) at Stearn's Lake among the Cackling and Canada Geese, I managed to relocate three Blue morph Snow Geese, one white morph Snow Goose, one Greater White-fronted Goose and two odd looking geese. Both odd looking Geese were hanging out together with one having more white on it's head than the other. Both Geese lacked a grin patch and had small gray bills. The Goose with the whiter head had a steeper crown-bill transition along with a more rounded culmen, these characteristics together with a size closer to the Cackling Geese than the Snow Geese suggests immature Ross's Goose to me. The second odd Goose was the same size as the first and had a very sooty head, a more continuous crown-bill transition and a straighter culmen. Neither bird had very white coverts, so who knows what they are.
Cheers, Walter Szeliga Boulder, CO --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
