I took a look around the Bass Ponds in Bloomington this afternoon and found many ducks and geese in the pond with the highlight being two Greater White-fronted Geese at the far end of the first pond mixed with many Canada Geese. They stood out when scanning through the geese because of their smaller size and then when looking closer their distinctive pink beak, white forehead, and snow white rump.
They were swimming around the far corner of the first pond (walking from the Bass Ponds parking lot entry), and were still swimming among the Canada Geese when I left. Only disappointment is that I did not bring my camera today so I was not able to get pictures of the geese, so hopefully they will be around still tomorrow to see. Other waterfowl included: Canvasback - 1 female Redhead - 1 male, 2 female Scaup - Counted 13 scaups, I believe they are Lesser, but I'm not good with their identification. Common Merganser - 1 male Hooded Merganser - 1 male Mallards - 300+ Canada Geese - 40+ ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
