There's a flock of them in Cecil County, but I have never seen them leave 
their
farm pond and yard.

At 09:41 AM 2/14/2005, you wrote:
>Yesterday while driving along the Summit Hall turf fields in upper 
>Montgomery County I came across two light brown and cream colored geese 
>grazing along the back edge of one of the fields.  Thinking I might have 
>my county Greater White Fronted, I put the scope on them and was 
>dissapointed when they turned out to be a pair of Chinese Geese.  They 
>looked very natural in their setting.  No different than the pair of 
>Canadians I saw earlier grazing on the polo grounds.  The nearest house 
>was at least a 1/2 mile away from where they were feeding.  Do these 
>domestic geese retain the ability to fly?
>
>Impoundments at Hughes Hollow ice free but very quiet.  A few RW 
>Blackbirds singing from the tops of trees.  Also,  I have been unable to 
>locate the flock of Horned Larks near the polo grounds since the Jan. snows.
>
>Andy Martin
>Gaithersburg
>
>

--Pat

Pat Valdata, Elkton, MD | 
"The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards
and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods.
More than any other thing that pertains to the body
it partakes of the nature of the divine." --Plato