[TN-Bird] Ross's Goose in Hendersonville

In yet another instance of the Lone White Goose phenomenon, Clay Gascoigne just 
sent me some photos of a Ross's Goose that is hanging out with some domestic 
ducks and geese and local Canada Geese at Creekwood Marina on Old Hickory Lake 
in Hendersonville (Sumner County).
For those note familiar with the Lone White Goose phenomenon, in a large 
percentage of cases, a single white goose in Tennessee over the last ten years 
or so has turned out to be a Ross's Goose as opposed to a Snow Goose.  On a 
number of occasions like this one, the lone Ross's has taken up with the 
resident population, and in those cases the Ross's seems to take its "wariness" 
cues from the locals, meaning that you can get very very close to these birds 
before they show the slightest bit of alarm.

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Chris Sloan
chris.sloan@xxxxxxxxxxx
Nashville, TN

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