blue Snow Goose

andrew l rabin (andyrab@wam.umd.edu)
Thu, 12 Feb 1998 16:18:54 -0500 (EST)


   On my way home I stopped by NIST to see if I could find the blue Snow
Goose.  I saw it on the roadside in a group of Canadas.  It definitely is
a blue phase Snow Goose.  (Thanks for the tip!)

   As far as the rarity of finding a snow goose within a flock of Canadas,
the only information I can provide is anecdotal.  Someone told me he had
seen a blue Snow Goose in a flock of Canada Geese last year.  He saw it in
Montgomery Village (Gaithersburg, MD).  Maybe this goose is the same one
as last year's?

Andy Rabin
Gaithersburg, MD
andyrab@wam.umd.edu