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For most of the morning I searched in vain for vagrants among the roughly 4300 Canada
Geese (3000 of them behind Chiganois School in Masstown) that were between Onslow and
Masstown in Colchester Co., just W of Truro. Then late in the morning, just across Hwy 2
from Pleasant View Drive in Onslow, among a very small flock of Canadas, I found a Greater
White-fronted Goose.
This was a small and rather uniform-looking bird, lacking barrring on the underparts and
sides. It had a pink -orange bill, as far as I could tell through the dirt on the bill.
Although it had the typical White-front white area at the base of the bill, it may not have been
fully mature; nonetheless it appeared to be a North American bird of the subspecies gambelli.
As in the Windsor area yesterday, there were some dark-breasted Canadas in the big flocks,
certainly less that 10% of the total, likely about the 5% that I estimated yesterday,
representing northerners.
Eric L. Mills
286 Kingsburg Road
RR#1, Rose Bay, Nova Scotia B0J 2X0, Canada
e.mills@dal.ca
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