I spent the morning in the field and turned up a few good birds today.
-- Highlight was an adult Ross's Goose with about 1,600 Canada Geese at the pond in downtown Limestone. This was my county-first Ross's Goose. At first I mistook it for another Snow Goose (there are many single Snows in the area lately). But once I scoped it, I could see it was smaller than the surrounding Canada Geese and had a very short neck and a stubby warty bill. It lacked the dark "grin" patch on the bill than Snows usually show too.
This wasn't the only interesting goose in the mix. An apparent Swan Goose x Canada Goose hybrid was also in the pond.
I uploaded some photos on my Flickr page here:
Snow Geese were seen at Collins Pond in Caribou and at Malabeam Lake in Limestone today too. Considering that the feed supplies are excellent right now, I expect all these geese will hang around for a while.
Earlier in the day, I had stopped at the Caribou wastewater lagoons and found a good assortment of shorebirds. These included 22 White-rumped Sandpipers, Semipalmated Plovers, Spotted Sandpipers, numbers of both yellowlegs and a discouraged Wilson's Snipe which appeared to be experiencing high-density polyethylene lagoon liner for the time... (It eventually decided it was un-probe-able and departed.) A juvenile Peregrine Falcon shook things up at one point. Waterfowl here include three Northern Pintails, Blue and Green-winged Teal, 30+Wood Ducks and a single Northern Shoveler. Two Rusty Blackbirds and my first White-crowned Sparrows of the fall were the other notables.
Three young Surf Scoters were at Lake Jo in Easton and a female/juvie Bufflehead was hanging with Canada Geese at Puddledock Pond in Fort Field.
American Pipits were a constant this AM with regular flyovers.
Good Birding!
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