Late this afternoon, I got an alert from Adam Miller that he had found a Pink-footed Goose at the Nazareth Quarry. It was about 15 minutes before sunset, so I quickly left the house and drove there, getting there right around sunset. Adam was still there but had lost the goose because of the vegetation between the fence and the quarry edge. We both scoped the general area he had it in for several minutes. I eventually found it and got some identifiable looks before it went behind a nearby tree trunk. Soon after, Adam spotted it again. This time is swam out into a more open area where I was able to get some horrendous, distant photos of it in the failing light.
While searching through the geese for the Pink-footed, I came across at least one Cackling Goose. This bird's grayer body, 'blocky' head, shorter neck, and short bill seemed to be a good candidate for one.
Also after sunset, a large flock of about 750 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 25 Herring Gulls, and 2 Ring-billed Gulls dropped into the quarry for the night. Other birds present in the quarry included 40 Ruddy Ducks, 5 Common Mergansers, 3 Ring-necked Ducks, and 2 Buffleheads among about a hundred Snow Geese and a few thousand Canadas.
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