A Greater White-fronted Goose -- a mostly brown goose with a white face patch above its bill -- is swimming in the water

White-fronted Goose

Now this is a special one: a Greater White-fronted Goose! They summer way the hell up north and summer in California or around the Gulf of Mexico. I’ve seen them just once before in the fall of 2021, a single immature individual in the West End of all place.

   16 September 2023
   ILCE-7RM5
   1/1600s    f/5.6   400mm   ISO 200
A Greater White-fronted Goose -- a mostly brown goose with a white face patch above its bill -- is swimming in the water