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Eagle Head Goose
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:01 pm
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:01 pm
So recently I have moved back to TN. (Food sucks) I have finally come out from under being sick, boxes, too much family for Christmas and finally made it out to duck hunt with some old childhood friends.
Well we dropped a few ducks and I send my dog out to get them. I am not paying attention to anything other than my dog. All the sudden my buddy starts hitting his goose (Canadian) call and shoots. He drops what appears to be a goose of some sort. The damn thing has a white head, but the rest is grayish blue.
I thought it was a blue goose, but all my friends call it an eagle head goose. I have never heard of it. Is that the same thing as an immature snow goose?
Well we dropped a few ducks and I send my dog out to get them. I am not paying attention to anything other than my dog. All the sudden my buddy starts hitting his goose (Canadian) call and shoots. He drops what appears to be a goose of some sort. The damn thing has a white head, but the rest is grayish blue.
I thought it was a blue goose, but all my friends call it an eagle head goose. I have never heard of it. Is that the same thing as an immature snow goose?
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Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:02 pm to Vol Fan in the Bayou
Mix between a snow and a blue I believe
This post was edited on 12/27/12 at 12:03 pm
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:04 pm to mylsuhat
quote:
Mix between a snow and a blue I believe
Blues and snows are actually the same species.
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:05 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
Right, but they do the dirty and produce a eagle head, right?
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:05 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
quote:
Blues and snows are actually the same species.
Right. A blue is just an immature snow goose.
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:07 pm to Vol Fan in the Bayou
hehhh.... I honestly didn't know that
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:11 pm to mylsuhat
it's why snows.. are smarter than blues.....
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:16 pm to choupiquesushi
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:26 pm to Vol Fan in the Bayou
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This post was edited on 12/27/12 at 12:28 pm
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:27 pm to Geauxtiga
I saw Canada goose a lot but it still feels weird and I always get looked at like I'm the dumbass
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:29 pm to mylsuhat
Yeah I know. It's like "lie" "lay"; or "burst". To use them correctly means people are numb-struck.
I edited it out, sorry. I had posted that there was no such thing as a "Canadian" goose. They're all "Canada".
I edited it out, sorry. I had posted that there was no such thing as a "Canadian" goose. They're all "Canada".
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:30 pm to mylsuhat
quote:
Eagle Head Goose
hehhh.... I honestly didn't know that
don't feel bad.. I know some guides - heck some that worked for me.. that didn't know that...
now there is an awfully rare 1 or 2 that can pop up.... and I mean rarely.. which is a blue phase ross' goose..or a ross' goose period... I have been around an awful lot of dead geese.. and have only seen about 5 blue phase ross' and about 20 ross' geese
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:31 pm to choupiquesushi
smaller and rose/pink bill right?
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:33 pm to choupiquesushi
quote:I'd posted "Ross" then did a search to check and only saw white ones. I believe you and had seemed to remember the Ross being what you're saying- just the pic I found happened to be a white one.
and I mean rarely.. which is a blue phase ross' goose..or a ross' goose period... I have been around an awful lot of dead geese.. and have only seen about 5 blue phase ross' and about 20 ross' geese
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:34 pm to mylsuhat
quote:
smaller and rose/pink bill right?
yes.. had a brief argument with a guide that worked for me once.. thinking they got 2 immature snows.... when in fact they got 3 ross'.
all 3 ended up getting mounted...
we had a blue phase ross the same weekend it got put in a pile with 50 something other geese.. and took lil choupique about 30 minutes to "re-find" the "different" blue goose....
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:47 pm to Vol Fan in the Bayou
quote:
Right. A blue is just an immature snow goose.
Not necessarily. A blue goose is just a blue phase of a snow. Not necessarily younger or immature. A blue can be (and usually is) in the blue phase it's entire life
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:47 pm to choupiquesushi
So is an Eagle head just another name for a blue goose or is it blue phase Ross? OR, is it something different all together?
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:50 pm to Vol Fan in the Bayou
quote:
So is an Eagle head just another name for a blue goose or is it blue phase Ross? OR, is it something different all together?
white headed.. blue goose... a ross' goose like that - would be ridiculously rare -
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:54 pm to choupiquesushi
Thats what I thought. Just never heard it call that before. But hell, never heard a Woodie called a whistler before this year either.
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:55 pm to Vol Fan in the Bayou
quote:thats messed up
Woodie called a whistler before this year either.
We've called "black bellied tree ducks" whistlers though
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