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I made some comments in a previous post, which were inaccurate. I had mentioned that the geese at Daniels Head were tame snow geese. This is not correct. I knew that they were tame birds, so did not look closely at them. I had actually seen snow geese there on a previous visit, in the fall. Knowing that the geese/ducks normally seen at that location were tame I assumed that the snow geese, I was seeing were also tame. I therefore jumped to the wrong conclusion when seeing the tame geese on the 3rd. I did not take a second look at them thinking they were the same birds previously seen and thus the confusion. So to clarify the birds at Daniels head were some other species of domesticated geese or maybe even ducks. It turns out that the snow geese I saw in the fall were actually wild and consisted of about a dozen birds. In Centreville, five birds were seen in all. I knew one was a snow goose for sure, confirmed by others present also seeing this bird. Again, I assumed that the other four were such. A wrong assumption, but to my defense, two looked like juvenile snow geese and matched the coloration and the other two, which were actually some domesticated species looked like other snow geese, although one in flight was much larger. Assuming that all must be tame I did not take a closer look at the other four, which were actually domesticated species of some sort. So in actuality the one snow goose present was wild with four tame geese. A lesson well learned, and I now know not to assume that larger ducks and geese in areas where I know there are domesticated birds might not be so at Cape Sable Island and elsewhere. In the future I will take more time to check out the birds in those areas. Live and learn as they say and all the best to all for now. James R. Hirtle Dublin Shore _________________________________________________________________ Share your latest news with your friends with the Windows Live Spaces friends module. http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mk
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