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Index of Subjects This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_QYrsgBgFKg41GjSlMGrngg) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Hi, I heard about this goose at the SSN meeting tonight. I mentioned the greylag goose under 'notables' and James added the GR WH-Fronted goose. I hadn't looked at my e-mail today so it was news to me. Wonderful sitings and the dark breasted Canadas as well. Such a lot of excitement. Rachel's talk was very interesting and informative. She's bright and very keen. You would ahve enjoyed her talk on Flying Squirrels. I hadn't realized that there are both Northern and Southern species in the province. I am a basket case tonight because I haven't stopped since 5:30 this morning... I am not getting up at 5:30 tomorrow morning! XxA. ----- Original Message ----- From: Eric L. Mills To: NS-RBA@yahoogroups.com Cc: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 3:53 PM Subject: [NatureNS] Greater White-fronted Goose, Onslow, Col. Co. Today I decided to ignore the mega-tick goose in the Truro area (which is still where it was yesterday) and concentrate on "other" geese. At high water this morning hundreds of geese were coming in from the W to the Onslow area. Since last week there has been a striking change of composition. A week ago, most of the few thousand birds I saw were big white-breasted Canada Canadas like our local birds. Today, at least a third of the birds I saw were dark-breasted, likely mostly the northern Branta canadensis interior. And not to my great surprise, considering the northern aspect of this week's flocks, by afternoon among about 4000 Canadas that had gathered during the morning practically on the roadside of McWilliam Road was a beautiful adult Greater White- fronted Goose. It had a nice bright orange bill and legs, and plenty of dark barring on the belly - pretty much a classic "Greenland" White-front. Too really classy geese in one day - plus some interesting and attractive Canadas too. Definitely a good birding day. Dr Eric L. Mills (Professor Emeritus of History of Science, Dalhousie University; Inglis Professor, University of King's College) Department of Oceanography Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4J1, Canada e.mills@dal.ca http://oceanography.dal.ca/person/Eric_L._Mills.html --Boundary_(ID_QYrsgBgFKg41GjSlMGrngg) Content-type: text/html; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3c.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd"> <HTML lang=en xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content=text/css http-equiv=Content-Style-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18975"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hi,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I heard about this goose at the SSN meeting tonight. I mentioned the greylag goose under 'notables' and James added the GR WH-Fronted goose. I hadn't looked at my e-mail today so it was news to me. Wonderful sitings and the dark breasted Canadas as well. Such a lot of excitement.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Rachel's talk was very interesting and informative. She's bright and very keen. You would ahve enjoyed her talk on Flying Squirrels. I hadn't realized that there are both Northern and Southern species in the province.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I am a basket case tonight because I haven't stopped since 5:30 this morning... I am not getting up at 5:30 tomorrow morning!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>XxA.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" dir=ltr> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> Eric L. Mills </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=NS-RBA@yahoogroups.com href="mailto:NS-RBA@yahoogroups.com">NS-RBA@yahoogroups.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=naturens@chebucto.ns.ca href="mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, November 10, 2010 3:53 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [NatureNS] Greater White-fronted Goose, Onslow, Col. Co.</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Today I decided to ignore the mega-tick goose in the Truro area (which is still where it was yesterday) and concentrate on "other" geese. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">At high water this morning hundreds of geese were coming in from the W to the Onslow area. Since last week there has been a striking change of composition. A week ago, most of the few thousand birds I saw were big white-breasted Canada Canadas like our local birds. Today, at least a third of the birds I saw were dark-breasted, likely mostly the northern <I>Branta</I> <I>canadensis interior</I>. And not to my great surprise, considering the northern aspect of this week's flocks, by afternoon among about 4000 Canadas that had gathered during the morning practically on the roadside of McWilliam Road was a beautiful adult Greater White- fronted Goose. It had a nice bright orange bill and legs, and plenty of dark barring on the belly - pretty much a classic "Greenland" White-front. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV align=