Sunday at the Sanctuary, Greater White Fronted Goose, Bald Eagle, Northern Goshawk

When we split up on Saturday night, Dan mentioned he was going to head down to the our weekly "walk" area early to try and get shots of a snow goose. I told him I would try and make it. So, running a little late on Sunday morning we got hooked up and did a brief tour, found no snow goose, but two other "new to me" specie were present; the Greater White Fronted Goose and the Cackling Goose. The Cackling goose, looks like a Canada goose, except much smaller, and has quite a different call. Here is a shot of the white fronted:

There were a number of other "water birds" of note, a couple of Widgeon, some Pintails, but we could not find the Harlequin that had been seen earlier in the week.
There was quite a stir on the river as many of the ducks took to flight along with the gulls, as a mature Bald Eagle was trying to "grab some lunch", it picked out a target and chsed it quite a while, to no avail.

Later on, Dan spotted this immature Northern Goshawk, which I believe everyone had a look at prior to its leaving.

By the end of the day we had added a couple of migrating Sharpshinned Hawks to the tally and a second, high altitude Baldy. We also found our first outing Richardson Ground Squirrel for the year.

Have a great week!
Turbo