These blog postings usually explore the ordinary. Ordinary doesn’t mean familiar, indeed obscurity often dominates. However, the exploration is ordinary in the sense that it treats locally encountered features.
Ordinary doesn’t apply to the solitary Greater White-fronted Goose that has been hanging out at Nelson’s waterfront for the last month. This goose breeds in the tundra far to our north and winters far to our south, but its migratory path rarely takes it anywhere near Nelson. That one is here is distinctly odd.
The bird is a juvenile: it has not yet developed its full adult plumage. Maybe it arrived after wandering off the normal path of its southern migration. This one likes to hang out with local Canada Geese.
The White-fronted Goose is named for the white on the front of its face.
White-fronted Goose
These blog postings usually explore the ordinary. Ordinary doesn’t mean familiar, indeed obscurity often dominates. However, the exploration is ordinary in the sense that it treats locally encountered features.
Ordinary doesn’t apply to the solitary Greater White-fronted Goose that has been hanging out at Nelson’s waterfront for the last month. This goose breeds in the tundra far to our north and winters far to our south, but its migratory path rarely takes it anywhere near Nelson. That one is here is distinctly odd.
The bird is a juvenile: it has not yet developed its full adult plumage. Maybe it arrived after wandering off the normal path of its southern migration. This one likes to hang out with local Canada Geese.
The White-fronted Goose is named for the white on the front of its face.
