[SBB] greater white-fronted goose in Shoreline

[Chuq Von Rospach <[[email protected]]>]

Was off at shoreline lake today, wandering around the boathouse area.  
While chasing a warbler in the trees, one of the maintenance trucks  
stopped and they let me know there was a strange goose in with one of  
the flocks. It looks to me like it's a greater white-fronted, and it  
was in with the pack of canada geese off to the right of the  
boathouse (the grass area next to where the paddlewheel boats are  
stored, the opposite side of the lake to the golf course). He was  
easily found and pictured, and I'll upload pictures later.

(I never did get the warbler).

Otherwise, things were pretty quiet, but the population's changed.  
Today I counted > 30 double-crested cormorants (basically, any place  
they could hang out, they were, both of the solar barges were full,  
and another few in the water), and there were large (100+) groups of  
coots and canada geese. I found a few (very few) mallards in among  
the coots, but nothing else of interest. saw two pied-billed grebes,  
15-20 gulls but non notable, two black-necked stilts on the shore  
just to the left of the boathouse where the geese tend to congregate,  
along with a couple of willets. various other birds include a couple  
of black phoebes, what looks to be a california towhee, a couple of  
hummingbirds, one red-tail hawk on a light standard, and finally, a  
northern mockingbird (a rather young one) that tried really hard to  
convince me it was a towhee....

Also seen were a large (really large) jack rabbit across the road  
from the golf course entrance (busily trying to do a cloaking  
operation since the hawk was about 50 feet away at the time), and as  
I arrived, a skunk, which was on the lawn where the geese congregate  
grubbing the thatch and ignoring all of the people around it (phrase  
of the day "if it gets you, you're walking home. don't even THINK of  
getting back in the car" -- said to a guy trying to take a picture  
with his phone by his girlfriend). I refound the skunk on the way  
out, where they'd relocated to the rengstorff house lawn, where it  
was again enthusiastically grubbing and ignoring all of the people  
around it... All I can say is "I'm glad I didn't have a golden  
retriever with me".


-- 
Chuq Von Rospach, Architech
[[email protected]] -- http://chuqui.typepad.com/

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