Pink-footed Goose etc.

[Joel and Sandy Wilcox-Fairbanks]

Hi All, 

Ira Sanders of Golden, CO and I relocated the Pink-footed Goose about 11:30 AM today. It was in a new place, in a field on the west side of Rte. 1 between Milbridge and Cherryfield, fairly close to Cherryfield. While we were watching, the flock broke up and flew away in 4 separate groups, in the direction of the Willey District Rd. fields. We followed them there, but there were only two groups of geese there and the PFG was not among them. 

Other birds seen:

Pine Grosbeak (8-9, in a tree where the PFG was sighted)

Northern Shrike (1, checking out the feeders in my yard, first one I've seen by the house)

Common Redpoll (10 at the feeders, except that one broke its neck running into the picture window when something spooked them; a very sad end to an otherwise great morning)

Joel Wilcox

Cherryfield

[Clark Moseley]

Today, John Fuller and I checked out the site that Joel and Sandy Wilcox-Fairbanks described in the new location in the below with no geese seen,  We also spent an hour and a half going through the ~180 Canada Goose at the Willey District Rd. fields.  We examined all the geese very well with my spotting scope and found no Barnacle Goose.

Chip Moseley

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Joel and Sandy Wilcox-Fairbanks <joelan...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All, 

Ira Sanders of Golden, CO and I relocated the Pink-footed Goose about 11:30 AM today. It was in a new place, in a field on the west side of Rte. 1 between Milbridge and Cherryfield, fairly close to Cherryfield. While we were watching, the flock broke up and flew away in 4 separate groups, in the direction of the Willey District Rd. fields. We followed them there, but there were only two groups of geese there and the PFG was not among them. 

Joel Wilcox

Cherryfield

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[Clark Moseley]

Whoops.  Naturally I meant, N0 Pink-footed Goose

[Joel and Sandy Wilcox-Fairbanks]

Chip, 

Sorry to hear you wasted your time. I checked the WD field near dusk, and was hoping that bad light and distance (with bins only) kept me from picking out the PFG. I'll look again tomorrow. It has also been seen, once, in a field south of Rte. 1, a little west of Harrington. 

Joel

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Clark Moseley <an.doc...@gmail.com> wrote: