Joel is right, I bungled the name of the city harboring a Brant this afternoon.
Sorry for the confusion.
Patricia had an errand at the city library in Keizer, and I thought to check
out Staats Lake and possibly Keizer Rapids while she was there. On the way into
the city center, we crossed Clagget Creek, and saw the flock of Cackling Geese
there. So after dropping Patricia, I went back to Clagget Creek Park to look
for white geese with the cacklers. Instead there was a black one that happened
to be at the near edge of the flock, as I looked them over from Chemawa Road. A
loud bang flushed them all, but they milled about in the air, then began to
come back in. I walked around the block to get a look from Dearborn Ave., but
failed to relocate the Brant. There was a Greater White-fronted Goose with the
flock at that time. The geese were actually in the pasture on the east side of
Clagget Creek, not in the park. I was amazed to find a Brant in such a small
flock of Cackling Geese (I estimated 300) right in town.
Good birding,
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Geier [mailto:joel.geier@xxxxxxxx] ;
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2016 2:32 PM
To: Oregon Birders OnLine; MidValley Birds
Cc: Jeff Harding
Subject: Re: Marion County Brant - Kaiser
Just in case this puzzled anyone else as much as it did me on first
look: pretty sure this supposed to be "Keizer." No doubt one of those
smartphone autocorrect "bonuses"...
There is a Brant with a large flock of Cackling Geese at Clagget Creek
Park in [Keizer], Marion County just now. They all took off when a car
backfired, but are coming back. SW of the intersection of Chemawa and
Versa.
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