Sorry for the late posting. (My e-mail has been unrelaible lately.)

Yesterday (Tuesday) in the pond at the west end of the viewing area  
at Dead Creek, there were two Greater White-Fronted Geese. They  
looked bigger than the Snow Geese (although Sibley says the two  
species are the same size), partly because the GWFG were extremely  
alert. They were swimming together, not feeding, not splashing, not  
preening – necks very straight, heads held high. Other birders have  
mentioned only one of this species there, so I wondered if the second  
was new to the flock and if the super alertness was some sort of  
getting-to-know-you behavior.

Maeve Kim, Jericho Center