crazyfingers
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I'm visiting my old universtity this week. There was a lot interesting wildlife at the campus pond.
A lone Snow Goose is hanging out with the Canada Geese. Local birders got an alert and there was a steady stream of people come to see it. I don't know how common it is for a snow goose to lose track of it's flock during migration but this was alone, except that the canada geese seemed willing let it join their group. I saw it fly off with a small groop of canada geese at evening yesterday and today. They probaby go to the farm fields a mile away at night, or perhaps the Connectcut River about 3 miles away. Big slow moving river. The canada geese around here are year-round and I suppose the snow goose figured the Canada geese know best where to go so it joined them.
The snow goose was a lifer for me. I look at that beak and what teeth!
A red-tail hawk spent all day here too. It would sit in the tree and watch. While I was there it caught and ate 4 mice and a sparrow. It would go to the same pine tree to eat and when finished fly back to its lookout tree.
The peregrine falcon showed up on the library tower. They breed in a nest box on top of the library. That was a lifer 2 years ago when I first saw it.
It's fun to watch geese fly in and out.
This little shallow pond in the middle of a big university sure gets action. A year ago 3 pink-footed geese were here. Another lifer at the time.
So over several visits this spot has produced 3 lifers for me. Kinda wild.
A lone Snow Goose is hanging out with the Canada Geese. Local birders got an alert and there was a steady stream of people come to see it. I don't know how common it is for a snow goose to lose track of it's flock during migration but this was alone, except that the canada geese seemed willing let it join their group. I saw it fly off with a small groop of canada geese at evening yesterday and today. They probaby go to the farm fields a mile away at night, or perhaps the Connectcut River about 3 miles away. Big slow moving river. The canada geese around here are year-round and I suppose the snow goose figured the Canada geese know best where to go so it joined them.
The snow goose was a lifer for me. I look at that beak and what teeth!
A red-tail hawk spent all day here too. It would sit in the tree and watch. While I was there it caught and ate 4 mice and a sparrow. It would go to the same pine tree to eat and when finished fly back to its lookout tree.
The peregrine falcon showed up on the library tower. They breed in a nest box on top of the library. That was a lifer 2 years ago when I first saw it.
It's fun to watch geese fly in and out.
This little shallow pond in the middle of a big university sure gets action. A year ago 3 pink-footed geese were here. Another lifer at the time.
So over several visits this spot has produced 3 lifers for me. Kinda wild.
