We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay at 10:00am
Last week we had a damp cloudy and windy day and hiked to the small lake on the high ground to the west of Hydro East Road. It was quite foggy there and eating lunch under the trees was a curious experience. The view out over the lake was cut short by the mist and the distance was shrouded in a white sheet that blended sky and water together. My photo was taken on the day of the mid-week hike which started and ended at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay. When we gathered there at the start, and when we returned in the afternoon the same small small flock of migrating geese were browsing the short green grass. We don't see this species, the Greater White-fronted Goose, very often, but they do seem to be visiting in larger numbers and more frequently than at any time in the last forty years or so. In my picture the adult is the bird on the left with the distinct white band across the front of the head and a juvenile is walking ahead of it on the right. The ones that come down our flyway in the fall would be breeding in Alaska probably and on their way to winter in the Lower Mainland or perhaps as far south as Mexico.
JD
Two Greater White-fronted Geese at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay.
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