I saw what appeared to be the same (or extremely similar) goose at Melvin 2 years ago (photos on my fb page). It vexed me and I had wide-ranging educated guesses on it's identity. Then I went to Texas and saw a huge mixed flock of greater white fronted and snow geese (hundreds of birds) and there were three birds mixed in that looked just like your goose. After that observation I tend to think the mystery Melvin goose is a greater white fronted - snow goose hybrid (but that's just based on one observation- others with more experience might know better!). Cheers, Heather Sent from my iPhone On Jan 17, 2011, at 10:06 PM, Kate Shulgina <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Today my mom and I paid a visit to the Melvin quarry pits. There were hundreds of Canada Geese and around 20 Snow Geese, as previously reported. > > We didn't spot any Cacklings, but there was an odd little white headed goose hanging around with the Canadas. My first thought was that it was a blue morph Snow Goose, but it had the body coloration of a Canada, and practically no grin patch. My guess is that it's a hybrid of Canada Goose with Snow or maybe Ross'. > > Take a look here and tell me what you all think: > http://picasaweb.google.com/irinashlgn/MelvinQuarryOH# > > In addition to the geese, we saw a nice variety of ducks, including Ring-necked Ducks, Redheads, Black Ducks, Pintails, Mallards, Ruddy Ducks, and a bunch of Coots. > > Kate Shulgina > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]