Day 17.045: Snow goose

After lunch, Exile #2 and I went to Laurel Hill Cemetery to stretch our legs while the sun was shining. It was cold and breezy, but felt good nevertheless. When we got down to the overlook over the Saco River estuary mud flats, we saw another birder who asked if we'd seen it, assuming we knew something we did not - that a snow goose had been spotted among its Canadian cousins.

Peterson shows their normal overwintering range only as far north as Delaware or so, Sibley has them as "rare" in Maine - as does Vickery who notes that occasional overwintering birds have become more common in this area since the 90's.

Apart from that surprise, what we saw was rather mundane - a lot of Canada geese, some mallards, a crow and a few dark-eyed juncos.