My guess (nothing more) is that this may be the same Snow Goose that was
walking about on the grass at Taughannock Point on the afternoon of March 16th.
That goose was pretty clearly unwilling to fly - it held one wing slightly
raised as if injured, and when it became wary of the attention it
First some updates & observations, then some thoughts.
Day before yesterday (31 March) the Snow Goose was grazing on the lawn between
the Cayuga Waterfront Trail and Cayuga Inlet still opposite Union Fields in the
morning. Through binoculars I watched from near the pavilion north of the
I recommend eBird. It’s great for keeping your records, including notes &
photos. It’s great for researching where birds have been found and when. And
eBird is helpful for finding birds. You can pull up a bar chart for all the
eBird records in a county. For Tompkins County it shows that the
Imagine my surprise last night when I spotted a male Ring Neck Pheasant near
the feeders. It’s a new yard bird for me. I got a few pics before he left. I
never expected to see him again. Imagine my surprise this morning when I found
him sitting on a teak table on my front porch! I was
