Upon spotting a flock of Snow Geese at the tail end of a rather lovely
and productive though brief birding trip with friends up the east side
of Cayuga Lake as far as Union Springs, I saw an odd-looking bird in the
Snow Goose flock. There were a couple of grey morphs, but one bird was
mostly dark except for a white face patch. The only bird in our guides
which it resembled, at a distance, was a Barnacled Goose which I assume
is an impossibility. What other bird would have coloration and markings
which resembled those of a Barnacled Goose? It was in a flock of Snow
Geese in a field of stubble on route 34. Could it be some kind of hybrid?
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