[va-bird] Re: Summary of East Coast Barnacle List Sightings

We saw a flock of about 10 Barnacle geese on Egypt Rd on the drive into
Blackwater NWR on Sat Jan 12 at aabout 10:00 am.  We did not count them
precisely because at the time we did not realize that seeing a flock of
the Barnacles was so unusual--  we did not know that people were mostly
seeing a single Barnacle goose.  We later saw the Barnacle Goose that
has been seen by many birders in Alexandria on Feb 2 while on a bird
walk with some excellent birders from the Alexandria Wild Bird Center. 
We were able to confirm that the geese we saw on Egypt Road were the
same species.  We have reported this to Phil Davis of the MD-DC Recoreds
Committee.  Ellie and Walt Simonson   Allen Hart wrote:
> 
> I spent a bit of time tonight reviewing the sightings of Barnacle Geese in 
> the Rare Bird Alert
> archives for Birdeast.
> 
> The following summarizes the sightings I found in the archives.  I then 
> created a timeline of the
> sightings.  Based on the timeline, there had to be at least five different 
> birds to account for the
> east coast sightings.
> 
> To see the timeline properly you need to use a fixed width font (like 
> Courier).
> 
> NB01 - NB, Moncton     - 11/03/2001 - last seen 11/28/2001
> 
> MA01 - MA, Glouchester - 12/07/2001 - salt marsh off Rt. 127, opposite the 
> Good Harbor Beach parking
> lot
> 
> NY01 - NY, Hook Pond   - 12/03/2001 - still present on 01/20/2002
> 
> CT01- CT, Mansfield   - 12/04/2001 - Stearns Farm (through 12/12/2001)
>       CT, Storrs      - 12/12/2001 - Mirror Lake  (probably same bird as 
> Stearns Farm) - last
> reported 01/22/2002
> 
> RI01 - RI, Portsmouth  - 12/15/2001 - field along Middle Road - last reported 
> 12/19/2001
>        RI, Portsmouth  - 01/16/2002 - Lawton Reservoir off West Main Road -
> 
> NY02 - NY, Calverton   - 12/30/2001 - Grumman Pond - still present 01/05/2002
>        NY, Northville  - 01/12/2002 - Penny Pond (probably Grumman Pond bird) 
> - still seen on
> 01/16/2002
>        NY, Mattituck   - 01/18/2002 - Marratooka Lake (probably Grumman Pond 
> bird) - last seen
> 01/19/2002
>        NY, Bayside     - 02/04/2002 - Oakland Lake (probably Grumman Pond 
> bird)
> 
> VA01 - VA, Fairfax CO  - 01/06/2002 - Potomac River - Belle Haven Marina - 
> last seen 01/26/2002
>        VA, Alexandria  -            - Cameron Run Regional Park - last 
> reported 02/18/2002
> 
> NJ01 - NJ, Warran CO   - 02/05/2002 - Merrill Creek Reservoir - last seen 
> 02/09/2002
>        PA, Bucks CO    - 02/08/2002 - Ridge Road / Street Road (probably 
> Merrill Creek Reservoir
> bird) - last seen 02/10/2002
> 
> MA02 - MA, Wakefield   - 02/18/2002 - Lynnfield Marsh Pleasure Island Road
> 
> Timeline of the sightings:
> 
>      Nov 2001                         Dec 2001                     Jan 2002
> Feb 2002
>      1      8      15     22     29     6      13     20     27     3      10 
>     17     24
> 31     6      13     20
> 
> +------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
> NB01   xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> MA01                                     x
> 
> +------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
> CT01                                  
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> RI01                                             
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> 
> +------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
> NY01                                 
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> NY02
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> +------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
> VA01
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> NJ01
> xxxxxx
> MA02
> x
> 
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> 
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