Saturday Wild Goose Chase - Part 2: Tundra Bean Goose

One of these things is not like the others ...

Yeah, that one in the middle, with the orange legs.

A Tundra Bean Goose. A mega-rarity in these parts. THE wild goose that prompted the chase.

A life bird for me, Patty, Terry (more later), and pretty much everyone else who saw it.

Here is the eBird range map, zoom in to see where we saw it (hint, it is near Philadelphia).

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Our friend Terry is another of these so called "Badass Birders of Burlington County" and apparently the only one 'badass' enough to brave the wilds of greater Philadelphia, although she need to have her non-birder husband drive her across the river. But I digress ...

As Patty and I were driving back from seeing the Snowy Owl at Brig, and looking forward to a nice breakfast and a relaxing afternoon after waking up way too early, Terry called Patty. "Want to chase the Goose?", she asked. A conundrum, as Patty wanted to go on Thursday. Patty had a plan. Get the goose and deliver xmas presents to her siblings. 

What to do? 

Well this whole post is a spoiler alert now isn't it?

Good thing we went, as the goose appears to have left the area.

And of course there was that hummingbird ... (foreshadowing ...) ...