The Greater White-fronted Goose was still at Charlotte (just south of  
the Holmes Creek) around 2:30 this afternoon.  However, it did not  
stay for too long as all the geese were flushed when a motor boat came  
relatively close to shore.

1 Greater Yellowlegs was also at Shelburne Bay.

Michael Lester
UVM

Quoting Gregory Askew <[log in to unmask]>:

> Lakewatching earlier in the morning, prior to seeing the White-fronted
> Goose, a lifer for me (thanks to the Birders Jim!), I saw 1 adult LITTLE
> GULL in a stream of Bonaparte's.
> Greg
> Vergennes
>
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Jim Mead <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Jim Osborn and I stopped at the Charlotte Town Beach this morning and
>> within
>> 1 minute of setting up our scopes, he spotted a Greater White-fronted Goose
>> (juvenile) at 10:26 a.m. It was against the far south bank beyond the
>> gravel
>> area in front of Holmes Creek. At that time it was with 30 Canada Geese. We
>> watched it for about an hour and a half. The group which was continually
>> joined by more Canada Geese swam across the entire beach area offering us
>> picture perfect views. Other people that were able to get great looks at it
>> were: Tom Jiamachello, Greg Askew, his daughter and her friend, Sherry
>> Mahady and a few others that happened to be there during the time that we
>> were. We left at around 12:10 p.m. The Greater White-fronted Goose and his
>> fellow Geese were all still there at that time.
>>
>> Enjoy Birds,
>>
>> Jim Mead
>>
>