While birding our territory on the O'Shaughnessy CBC today, we hit the mother lode of geese in a very easily accessible location.  The flock contained nearly 450 Canadas, as well as 2 juvenile Snow Geese, 1 Ross' (or RossXSnow, only the photos will tell), and 1 Cackling.  They were in the ponds in the front of the Scotts Lawncare factory southeast of Marysville, along Industrial Way (the road that parallels US 33) just northwest of the intersection/town of Dipple.  You can pull off onto the shoulder here and scan the ponds on both sides of the road, although traffic on a weekday might be more brisk than it was today.  The ponds are kept open by bubblers, and the nearby lawns are lush (since it is Scotts :-) and inviting to the geese, which were all over them for much of the early afternoon.

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