[TN-Bird] Re: Lone Ross's Goose the AXIOM - It is TRUE!!
- From: "Scott Somershoe" <Scott.Somershoe@xxxxxx>
- To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:44:41 -0600
So I have to add to this discussion. A lone white goose is "most likely" a
Ross's Goose and I add another data point to support Jeff's working hypothesis.
I was birding some of my favorite haunts on Percy Priest Lake this afternoon
(see subsequent post) while hoping the cool air would push off the cold/sinus
infection I felt coming on (it didn't, and I feel worse now, but I had fun
birding). Anyway, I was scanning the water from Anderson Rd Rec area. I saw
at a long distance a funny looking white gull with black primaries, flying
weird. I was temporarily befuddled as it was a messed up gull, but after a
short while I realized it was a goose. It bird banked a couple times and gave
nice views. It was a single, lone, solo Ross's Goose. The bird landed and swam
around nervously as if it was waiting for the flock to arrive. I later saw the
bird from Hamilton Creek (which isn't far and scans some of the same waters).
So a lone white goose is "most likely" a Ross's Goose!
This was my first Ross's Goose for Percy Priest, and very much unexpected.
Great birding!
Scott Somershoe
Alas the axiom does not always work; a single white goose I found on
Friday (11/12/2010) at the Booker Farm Road equestrian center in
Maury County was a Snow Goose. I think this rule-of-thumb works
better in West TN.
Bill Pulliam
Hohenwald TN
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Sorry but the key words here were "MORE LIKELY" not ALWAYS and I've
received reports from all across the eastern US with this being so. West TN is
not the only area blessed in such a way. Single healthy, un-injured White
Geese do show a definite tendency to be Ross's from a majority of reports and
comments I've collected over the years. Thanks Bill for the report and it
is duly recorded.
Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
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Bartlett, TN 38135
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