{"id":94233,"date":"2021-01-28T06:07:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T13:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=94233"},"modified":"2021-01-28T06:37:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T13:37:55","slug":"one-of-the-more-unusual-canada-geese-ive-photographed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/28\/one-of-the-more-unusual-canada-geese-ive-photographed\/","title":{"rendered":"One Of The More Unusual Canada Geese I’ve Photographed"},"content":{"rendered":"

It pays to keep your eyes open, even amongst ‘common’ birds.<\/p>\n

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Three days ago while attempting to photograph waterfowl on one of several local ponds I frequent I used my lens to scan a group of Canada Geese on the far away opposite shore and spotted a goose with unusual coloration on ‘her’ head and upper neck. She appears to be partially leucistic<\/a><\/span><\/span>. Her white cheek patch extends over the top of her head in an unusual manner and there’s an additional atypical patch of white on the upper left side of her neck.The rest of her coloration appears to be normal for the species.<\/p>\n

This photo amuses me because our special goose seems to be the center of attention of nearly all of her companions and given her flamboyant foot and leg pose she seems to know it as she poses for her admiring audience. The goose I cut off on the right frame edge appears to be announcing the entrance of her royal highness.<\/p>\n

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In a photo taken a few seconds earlier we can see a little more of her unusual coloration on the back of her head and neck. I never did get any photos of the right side of her head.<\/p>\n

I’m always on the lookout for the unusual in the birds I photograph and when I find one that stands out I like to document it. They probably interest me more than they do many of my viewers but hey, it’s my blog… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Note: I’ve covered this before but I think it’s time to do it again. <\/em><\/p>\n

I’m sure it makes some of my readers wince uncomfortably when I don’t know the sex of a bird but assign it a sex anyway, as I did today. When I do so it’s my custom to enclose the chosen pronoun in single quotes the first time I use it in the post to signal to my viewers that I don’t really know the bird’s sex.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

It isn’t a perfect solution but I prefer doing that to repeatedly referring to the bird as “it” which I find too impersonal and even demeaning. And yes, I’m aware of several gender-neutral pronouns that have been proposed but I’m even more uncomfortable with them because they’re not universally known. Many readers would wonder what the hell I’m talking about.<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s an imperfect world and English is an imperfect language.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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It pays to keep your eyes open, even amongst ‘common’ birds.<\/p>\n

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