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Today about 1100, a week after it was first seen, Jeff Ogden and the I watched the Truro- area Barnacle Goose as it arrived high from the W in a small flock of Canada Geese dropping in on the N side of the Salmon River just W of the north Tidal Bore road in Onslow. It disappeared into a ditch in a stubble-field for a while, and then emerged and grazed in full view for a long time. Canada Geese had been arriving in the Tidal Bore Road fields and alongside the nearby McWilliam Road for at least two hours before the Barnacle Goose flew in. I gave the 1000+ Canada Geese in the two places a careful inspection today, but couldn't find a Cackling Goose or any other species. Anyone travelling to Truro to see the Barnacle Goose should be sure to go just before high water and be prepared to wait as the flocks of geese arrive. That is a spectacle in itself, given added beauty by the presence of the Barnacle Goose. There is a large roost of geese along the Salmon River W of Truro past Old Barns, but it is not accessible easily and most of the birds that roost there until high tide appear to fly in to the two fields at Onslow. The north Tidal Bore Road is accessed by leaving Hwy 102 at Exit 14A, turning W for a few hundred meters, then taking a left opposite the Onslow Market. Just beyond the Market another half km on the right is McWilliam Road where a sizable flock accumulates in a green field to the W of the gravel road.
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