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All: I had to make a brief trip to Dartmouth, so swung around Tufts Cove and Sulliovans Pond. There are about 30 Am. Wigeon at Tufts Cove, but no Eurasians as yet. There are five wild (but quite tame) Canada Geese at Sullivans Pond that are smaller than the pond's resident Canadas, thin-necked and rather dark plumaged, with gray breasts rather than the whitish ones found on our typical coastal "Atlantic" Canada Goose subspecies, Branta canadensis canadensis. They look like "Interior" (sometimes called "Todds") Canada Goose, B. c. interior. Their smallish size suggests that they might come from an area where early nutritional stunting is frequent, as on James Bay islands or, more likely, from the expanding populations in eastern Nunavut and West Greenland. Idle speculation makes commonplace birding more fun. Cheers, Ian McLaren
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