Never seen a goose like this before.....

[bkuether]

My daughter and I spied this HUGE goose wandering around the neighborhood. It isn't Canadian and it isn't a Snow.

What IS this monstrosity? It has a HUGE bill.

 

[Enfield303]

It looks like a whistling swan. I think they are now called tundra swan

 

[Mark75H]

Agree, swan.

 

[bkuether]

OK, swan it is.

Common to see them "walking about" in the hood ? Just seemed..... ODD.

 

[lowoncash]

Still probably good eating.

 

[Silent Partner]

someone's pet
someone else Christmas dinner

 

[Bikebreath]

I wonder if it's in it's "last days", since it's wandering in yer hood.

 

[remrug]

Probably a pet who's pond froze over looking for some water

 

[new_shooter]

Christmas. That there is a Christmas goose.

 

[Sticky]

More like an Xmas swan..

 

[Threeband]

Looks like an ugly duckling to me.

 

[Doitsouthstyle]

Xmas dinner I see. Turkey, chicken, duck, goose swan all look good served on a platter. Dinner is served.

 

[fabsroman]

It is a swan, but it is not a tundra swan. Tundra swans have a black beak and black feet. It looks more like the resident pest swan, the mute swan.

http://www.chesapeakebay.net/fieldguide/critter/mute_swan

Here is the write up of DNR's extermination policy pertaining to the mute swan. It is written by the humane society, so obviously it is biased.

http://www.humanesociety.org/animals/swans/qa/mute_swan_faq.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

Tundra Swan Hunt:

https://vimeo.com/84958804

It gives you a good idea of how large these birds really are. I had 4 tundra swans come into my canadian goose spread one day. We could see them from a mile away and were wondering the entire time what goose could possibly be that big. No season for tundra swans in Maryland.

 

[lowoncash]

To call a mute swan do you use sign language?

 

[lee2]

To call a mute swan do you use sign language?

just "the bird."

 

[willtill]

If it becomes a "pest" you can take it quietly with this:



(just don't play the soundtrack when employing it)

 

[outrider58]

...Or as some call them, "swoose".

 

[mistaforty]

To call a mute swan do you use sign language?

Mute is not socially acceptable any more it's a swan who is non verbal ...

 

[Dingo3]

"Stop looking at me Swan"

 

[Grampa G]

No season for tundra swans in Maryland.

I remember hunting the western shore one year when some guys in the next blind shot 3 tundra swans. They were from NC and didn't bother to read the rules. Each gunner in the blind was fined something like $1500 per bird.