Nature Done Wright

Incorporating the Celery Farm and Screech Owl Companion blogs

February 13, 2024

Rare Goose at the Celery Farm? (No)

John Pastore checked out the natural area’s small lake this morning and reports (with a less-cropped version of the photo above):

"Saw today, from Warden's Watch. With a few Canada Geese. By the time I got to Pirie, the unknown goose flew by, honking."

John and I think it’s a Greater White-fronted Goose, and a first for the Celery Farm. I just went out and looked — just a female hooded merg and some other ducks. No goose.

(Thanks, John!)

More on Greater White-fronted Geese here:

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/…/Greater_White…/id

Update: Rob Fanning says… Sorry to say this looks like a “false” GWF Goose, in other words a “Domestic barnyard goose or hybrid) These have tricked many a birder as they look quite similar to GWF geese at first glance. ,