[TN-Bird] Re: Lone White Geese, 2010-2011
- From: Bill Pulliam <bb551@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Tennessee Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 23:30:19 -0500
Actually, I expressed no conclusion and made no pronouncement. I
just presented some data and suggested a possibility.
Bill Pulliam
Hohenwald TN
> On May 10, 2011, at 11:11 PM, OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
> In a message dated 5/10/2011 12:51:32 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> bb551@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> A summary of the "lone white geese" reported by Tennessee eBirders
> during the winter of 2010-2011:
>
> Snow Goose: 13
> Ross's Goose: 3
>
> Broken down by regions -- Snow/Ross:
>
> West TN: 4/1
> Middle TN: 3/2
> East TN: 6/0
>
> Most reports of Ross's Geese now are of multiple birds; in west TN
> sometimes double digits. Perhaps with the increase in numbers, the
> classic image of the Ross's Goose as the "lone white goose" has
> passed away.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> Perhaps, Me, Me Next......................................
> Again, looking through a key hole and pronouncing a passing. As
> Mark Twain
> once said,"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated "
> Restricting
> reports to just TN and also from a single but incomplete collection of
> sightings which doesn't extend too far into the past, is a good way
> to make a
> point fit a view. Again, even recently, single healthy, uninjured
> lone white
> geese are likely to be Ross's especially where you would expect
> Ross's to
> appear toward the MS RV and westward not in east TN. I spend a LOT
> of time in
> the field, I spend a lot of time collecting data, I am continually in
> communication with most of the best field birders in the mid-south.
> Due to
> extensive hunting of the over abundant Snow Geese now, I'm seeing a
> lot of
> crippled singles and do get Ross's by the hundreds in a day, but
> still in this
> season; isolated single Ross's sighted 6, single healthy Snows 3 and
> reports this season from interested parties that spend a lot of
> their time in
> the field in four states, reported, at my urging , single Ross's
> 8, single
> healthy Snows 3. (14/6) Widen horizons before writing an obituary.
> Empiricism and Rationalism?
>
> I promise not take anymore time on TN-Bird flogging this horse to
> make a
> point. Any replies, I'll be glad to answer off line. ;o)
>
> Good Birding!!
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