It seems so often the case that when an unusual bird shows up in Ontario it just happens to be hundreds of kilometres away. Ontario is, after all, a big jurisdiction. Every once in a while, however, something turns up close to home (or work). A Ross's Goose was reported to Ontbirds by Bob Noble last Saturday at Professor's Lake in Brampton, which is only a few kilometres from my office. I was not at the office on Monday so my first chance to check the lake was yesterday, but when I arrived at approximately 9:45 a.m. most of the geese had already departed for nearby farmer's fields or wherever. So today I arrived bright and early at 7:55 a.m. and lo-and-behold it was out on the edge of the ice, about 250 metres from shore.
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Ross's Goose |
Now this photograph is not what you would call "portrait quality". In fact it might rival photographs of Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster. But honest, it's a Ross's Goose.
Similar in appearance to the larger Snow Goose, Ross's Goose is most often seen in small numbers in Ontario as a passage migrant in Spring. It breeds in northern Canada and winters in the Southern United States and northern Mexico (notably in Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico).
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