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From: "Dusty Bleher" <[[email protected]]>
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Subject: Re: [SBB] Ross' Goose -  Ed Levin Park
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Thanks for the tip, Chris.  Your Ross' Goose will be a new addition to
the Ed Levin Park list, and will be reflected in the next printing.  I
now have 185 species listed.


Dusty


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris & Jeanne Salander" <[[email protected]]>
To: <[[email protected]]>
Sent: Sunday, 25 January, 2004 13:26
Subject: [SBB] Ross' Goose - Ed Levin Park


>
>   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
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