[pct-l] Using ducks to mark the trail - a new approach

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Len wrote:

> We saw this on the road  below Third Gate in the San Felipe Hills,
> looking for all the world like a duck out of water...
>
> <http://www.trailjournals.com/photos.cfm?id=307764>
>
> Anybody know what kind it might be?

Actually it's a goose - a Pacific (or Black) Brant, scientific name is Branta bernicla nigricans...
They winter along the "Pacific coast south to California and Mexico"...
See <http://animalpicturesarchive.com/view.php?tid=5&did=2822> for very similar photo to yours...

Happy trails!!!  and birding, too!
Jim