Hi Steve,

I don't know you, but Snow Geese in Montgomery County would be quite 
unusual though not unprecedented.  (Only one confirmed eBird record over 
the past two years--and those were flyovers).  Black Hill has lot's of 
hybrid and domestic geese, which have been misidentified as other goose 
species in the past.  If you or others posting here believe you saw a 
Snow Goose in the county, it would be much appreciated if you could 
provide details of how you identified it and where it was seen.  (I'm 
posting this because there have also been other posts reporting Snow 
Geese at this location recently, but no other info was provided, so 
they've been hard to evaluate).

Thanks,
Jim Moore
Rockville, MD

On 12/30/2010 8:40 PM, Stephen Jones wrote:
> We saw 11 different species of duck (immature Long-tail which landed right in front of us was the standout!) in good numbers near the visitor's center.  There were also some Snow Geese and Domestic Geese, mixed in with the grazing Canadas, as well as a strange goose which resembled a Canada Goose (x Domestic?) hybrid (black bill and neck and proportions of CG,but white head and lower neck (where CG neck would still be black) and yellow-orange feet.
>
> The woods were also full of birds:  Brown Creeper, Winter Wren, GC Kinglet, YB Sapsucker, YR Warbler, Bluebird, and the usual feeder crowd.  Two adult Bald Eagles were perched by the dam across from the pull-off at the Boyds end of the causeway.
>
> Stephen and Liz Jones
> Bethesda, MD
>