Quite the weekend.

On Saturday, I joined the BBC trip, which wandered all over Essex county. Ross’s Geese were tempting, so it didn’t take too much prodding for me to join.

After meeting up with the group, we headed right over to the geese, which were along Rt. 133 in Ipswich. They had been discovered last weekend by Rick Heil (and then more were found in western Mass and then in Haverhill as well during the week) and ended up being almost too easy. We parked on the side of the road, walked up to the fence, and had the flock in the scopes. They were a little further than I would have liked, but were still quite easy to see. The stubby bills were quite visible. Since my previous experience with Ross’s Goose were a few heads that would pop up in the flock of Snows at Bosque del Apache, this was a good chance to study them. They were a bit far for good photos, but I did snap a few that were acceptable (and if you go through Massbird archives others have posted plenty of good ones).