From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Jan 25 21:29:14 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0Q5QwgW015305 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:26:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.inreach.com (smtp.inreach.com [209.142.2.34]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id i0Q5PQBe015254 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:25:26 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> Received: (qmail 32346 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2004 05:25:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?209.209.18.126?) (209.209.18.126) by smtp.inreach.com with SMTP; 26 Jan 2004 05:25:38 -0000 Date: Sun, 25 Jan 04 21:26:31 -0000 x-sender: [[email protected]] x-mailer: Claris Emailer 1.1 From: Chris & Jeanne Salander <[[email protected]]> To: <[[email protected]]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Subject: [SBB] Ross' Goose - Ed Levin Park X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2+ Precedence: list List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] I have not been reading every bird sighting e-mail in detail, so I apologize if this bird has already been reported and known about for some time. Sunday, January 25, 2004 4 pm My wife and I observed a white adult ROSS'S GOOSE on the northwestern shore of Sandy Wool Lake in the upper section of Ed Levin Park in Milpitas. The goose was feeding in the mud in the company of two Coots. The almost all white goose was drastically smaller than the domesticated geese nearby. It was somewhat thicker but not any longer than the Mallards nearby. It had a strikingly tiny red bill that was in length only a fraction of the depth of the head. The base of the tiny red bill did not spread up onto the face at all. The solid black primaries were visible above the tail. We observed the goose from about 12 feet away through the window of a truck. After a while, the goose noticed us, stopped feeding and became agitated. We drove off so that it would not fly off. - Chris Salander _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]]