Day 6 of 2016: I Got The Other Goose

When people hear goose, they think of the Canada Goose, which you see all the time if you go to the park frequently or play on a sports field often. There is one other goose besides this one that regularly occurs in Manhattan called Brant. They like to winter in estuaries in the hundreds, but also hang out in small flocks in the East River, often feeding along the banks on water plants. Riding a car by the river yesterday, I scanned for these geese, and it didn't take me long to find a flock of about 30 birds in the middle of the river around 110th street. On the return trip, there were about 50 Brant in the same spot as before. Year bird #40 was in the books. In other news, today I removed Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker from the heard-only list, seeing one near Turtle Pond today.