Date: 1/27/25 3:36 pm From: zach schwartz-weinstein via groups.io <zachsw...> Subject: [hmbirds] Bean-goose update - no sightings today.
The Taiga Bean-Goose was not seen today, as far as I’m aware. This is the
first day that at least one birder did not see the goose since January
8th. It may still be around, since the Ross’s x Cackling Goose was
recorded by multiple observers at Hudson Crossing today, or it may have
moved on. I don’t know how exhaustively birders searched the
Northumberland and Gansevoort fields today, or if there was any searching
up the Battenkill. I do know that several people staked out Hudson
Crossing without success, and birders who did check fields in
Northumberland came up empty.
This is not the first time this goose has disappeared - it was missing for
two days after Karen Randall’s initial sighting, and for several days after
John Hershey’s photos confirmed it as a Bean-Goose. And it was missing for
almost the entire day of January 12th before the McKays found it in
Greenwich. So it may very well turn up again, or perhaps it will reappear
elsewhere.
