[TN-Bird] Ross's Goose

  • From: JimmWilkerson@xxxxxx
  • To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:03:25 EST

Thomas Farm  Hwy. 27
Hamilton Co. Chattanooga TN.

Just after noon today as I was passing by Thomas farm I saw several white 
birds near the lake.  My first impulse was that it was possibly gulls.  I 
stopped 
anyway and got the scope out.  I saw 9 geese of some type.  About a half hour 
later I was able to determine that 7 of them were definitely Ross'.  The 
other two were identical except their bill more resembled a Snow Goose but they 
were lacking a "grin patch."  I suppose those two were hybrids.

On other smaller water surfaces were Mallards, Gadwall and American Wigeons.  
Canada's were present but were not in the vicinity of the Ross'.

Jimmy Wilkerson
Hixson, TN.


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