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:
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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
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