This afternoon at the Retreat Meadows: among the 600-odd Canada geese there
was 1 cackler and 3 long-tailed ducks. It was a different cackler from one
that Dave Johnson photographed here a couple of weeks ago. It was very dark
- dark enough to be a Taverner's (reported from western MA a week or so
ago), but the head and bill structure were wrong for that race - more like a
typical hutchinsii.

 

Hector Galbraith

Climate Change and Energy Initiative

Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences

 

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