Reply #6: Cackling Goose

[semillama]

Nailed this one yesterday, about 4-6 individuals in amongst about 300 Canada Geese, couple hundred mallards and black ducks and a lone Redhead, at a local metro park.

These guys are hard to pick out in a crowd, especially when it's snowing and the geese are all constantly moving around in a small area of open water. I looked at the group for about 25 minutes until I picked them out. I saw some geese that didn't seem quite as big as the others. I compared them to some mallards they were swimming with, they were bigger. Then I looked at some Canadas that had mallards next to them, and they were two-three times bigger. That's how I identified them.

There's supposed to be an Audubon trip up to Killdeer Plains WA on sunday, where I am hoping to see some owls not on my list; however, we are supposed to get up to 6 inches of snow tomorrow. :-(