White-fronts

I took a walk around the Waltham St. Fields for snipe yesterday. Or at least I started to, halfway around I bumped into these guys and couldn’t check the rest of the fields:

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Two young Greater White-fronted Geese!

Sun was pretty bad there but note pinkish bills.

I ran home to post them and then returned to show my parents. Scoping from the street they looked more orange-billed (not that the bills show here):

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Marj soon showed up and we reentered the fields and were able to get fairly close. Bill color looks a bit pinker again but the right one is still quite orange. Also note how little (if any) white there is on that one, seems rather late to be so limited.

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