During the Wednesday morning bird walk a snow goose flew in and landed in the west pond. Views were good of head, but it kept hiding body behind grass. It was a blue phase. Was hanging out with a gaggle of canada geese. Location: Sandy Ridge Reservation Observation date: 9/17/08 Number of species: 47 Snow Goose Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Green-winged Teal Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Turkey Vulture Killdeer Mourning Dove Chimney Swift Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Wood-Pewee Eastern Phoebe Yellow-throated Vireo Warbling Vireo Blue Jay Northern Rough-winged Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch House Wren Marsh Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet American Robin European Starling Cedar Waxwing Nashville Warbler Magnolia Warbler Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Common Yellowthroat Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Northern Cardinal Brown-headed Cowbird American Goldfinch ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]