Comments on: Notes from Up North https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/23/notes-from-up-north-1/ Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:54:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/23/notes-from-up-north-1/#comment-525226 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:54:38 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/23/notes-from-up-north-1/#comment-525226 Brad: The hybrid idea occured to me as well. It could even be the great grand offspring of a hybrid. On the other hand, the very small difference between this goose and the others allows for a simple genetic mutation as well. The geese never left their flotilla, so I could not see it’s legs. (On the other and, about one in a thousand or so Canada Geese seem to have the wrong color legs with no other trait differences, at least in the Twin Cities area where you can see a thousand at once here and there).

Hunting Canada Geese? Once you hunt them, what do you do with them? Hunters around here seem to think they can’t be made to taste good. I find that hard to believe.

]]> By: Brad https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/23/notes-from-up-north-1/#comment-525225 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:27:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/23/notes-from-up-north-1/#comment-525225 Your oddball goose is probably a hybrid with some type of domestic goose. Search on flickr for hybrid goose and you’ll find lots of examples.
BIL shot one a couple years ago, generally Canada Goose markings, but the grey areas were flecked with white, the beak and feet were orangeish, and distinctly bigger than other Canadas in the same flock.
And I’m pretty sure I’ve seen Golden Eagles here in Manitoba. Bald eagles are getting common enough to hardly be worthy of comment.

Brad

]]> By: Rob https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/23/notes-from-up-north-1/#comment-525224 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:44:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/23/notes-from-up-north-1/#comment-525224 Saw a golden eagle at Fond du Lac a few weekends back. Not much of a birder myself, I asked one of the natural resources staff. He told me it was a golden and how you could tell it apart from other large raptors.

]]> By: Lisa Palmer Fleming https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/23/notes-from-up-north-1/#comment-525223 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 18:28:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/23/notes-from-up-north-1/#comment-525223 From years of experience living on a few acres of river shore in Pine River, I can guarantee that you will eventually have NO birch or aspen standing unless they are wrapped with hardware cloth. Never underestimate the power of a beaver, (I can see your thought bubble); wrap up 5 feet high from the highest paw hold.

]]> By: Fred Magyar https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/23/notes-from-up-north-1/#comment-525222 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:36:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/23/notes-from-up-north-1/#comment-525222 Just keep your camera hidden…

http://www.burdr.com/2009/12/golden-eagle-attacks-cameraman/

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