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--=====================_263256046==.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 7 November 2010 Ian McLaren and I drove to seek the Greylag Goose today. We went first to the site where the goose was seen yesterday, at McKinley Rd, in Lower Onslow, west of Truro. There were many Canada Geese in the corn stubble field, but they were some distance from the road, and most were out of view on the other side of a small ridge. So, as Mike King and others did yesterday, we drove up the Lower Onlslow Clarke Cemetery Road for a closer look. But we had only ventured a few hundred yardsn up this track, and had not yet stopped the vehicle, when most of the geese (400-500) took flight, leaving some 80 geese behind. The Greylag Goose was among the geese that took flight, and was evident by its smaller size, as well as the expected plumage differences. The geese wheeled about the field, then flew west, in the direction of Masstown. We spent the rest of the afternoon searching, but never relocated the flock. We never saw the thousands of geese that Don MacNeill had seen earlier, and only otherwise saw Canada Geese in corn stubble fields. The largest flock we saw later that afternoon was on the south side of the Minas Basin. We drove west from Exit 14 for 4.5 km, and turned left on the gravel road leading to the Irwin Lake Chalets. A couple of hundred Canada Geese were in a corn stubble field about 500 metres up this road. In summary: the Greylag Goose is still present, and it doesn't seem as if the flocks of geese will migrate out too soon. It is worth still searching for the Greylag, as well as whatever other interesting geese might be present. Blake Maybank ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blake Maybank maybank@ns.sympatico.ca 902-852-2077 Editor, "Nova Scotia Birds" http://nsbs.chebucto.org Organiser, Maritimes Nature Travel Club http://tinyurl.com/naturetravel author, "Birding Sites of Nova Scotia" http://tinyurl.com/birdingns Downloadable Nova Scotia Maps for inside front and back covers: http://tinyurl.com/mr627d White's Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada --=====================_263256046==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> <body> 7 November 2010<br><br> Ian McLaren and I drove to seek the Greylag Goose today. We went first to the site where the goose was seen yesterday, at McKinley Rd, in Lower Onslow, west of Truro. <br><br> There were many Canada Geese in the corn stubble field, but they were some distance from the road, and most were out of view on the other side of a small ridge. So, as Mike King and others did yesterday, we drove up the Lower Onlslow Clarke Cemetery Road for a closer look. But we had only ventured a few hundred yardsn up this track, and had not yet stopped the vehicle, when most of the geese (400-500) took flight, leaving some 80 geese behind. The Greylag Goose was among the geese that took flight, and was evident by its smaller size, as well as the expected plumage differences. <br><br> The geese wheeled about the field, then flew west, in the direction of Masstown. We spent the rest of the afternoon searching, but never relocated the flock. <br><br> We never saw the thousands of geese that Don MacNeill had seen earlier, and only otherwise saw Canada Geese in corn stubble fields. The largest flock we saw later that afternoon was on the south side of the Minas Basin. We drove west from Exit 14 for 4.5 km, and turned left on the gravel road leading to the Irwin Lake Chalets. A couple of hundred Canada Geese were in a corn stubble field about 500 metres up this road.<br><br> In summary: the Greylag Goose is still present, and it doesn't seem as if the flocks of geese will migrate out too soon. It is worth still searching for the Greylag, as well as whatever other interesting geese might be present.<br><br> Blake Maybank<br><br> <x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br> Blake Maybank<br> maybank@ns.sympatico.ca<br> 902-852-2077<br><br> Editor, "Nova Scotia Birds"<br> <a href="http://nsbs.chebucto.org/" eudora="autourl"> http://nsbs.chebucto.org<br><br> </a>Organiser, Maritimes Nature Travel Club<br> <font color="#0000FF"><u> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/naturetravel" eudora="autourl"> http://tinyurl.com/naturetravel</a></u></font> <br><br> author, "Birding Sites of Nova Scotia"<br> <font color="#0000FF"><u> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/birdingns" eudora="autourl"> http://tinyurl.com/birdingns<br> </a></u></font>Downloadable Nova Scotia Maps for inside front and back covers:<br> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/mr627d" eudora="autourl"> http://tinyurl.com/mr627d</a> <br><br> White's Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada </body> </html> --=====================_263256046==.ALT--
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