Greater snow goose blue phase: update
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 7:31 pm
How rare is it and has anyone here ever shot one?
Updated: See below
Updated: See below
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Greater snow goose blue phase: update
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Re: Greater snow goose blue phase
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 7:39 pm
Don't know the rarity of it, but I've probably shot around 10 in blue phase.
Re: Greater snow goose blue phase
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 7:48 pm
Did they have nearly all white belly and neck up to the head?
I shot a blue today that is measurably larger than the other snows and blues and it was the only blue with white belly and white under the neck. Just wondering if it could be a greater.
I shot a blue today that is measurably larger than the other snows and blues and it was the only blue with white belly and white under the neck. Just wondering if it could be a greater.
Re: Greater snow goose blue phase
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 8:43 pm
pictures ???
Re: Greater snow goose blue phase
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 7:27 am
You sure they were greaters?dirtysouthducks wrote:Don't know the rarity of it, but I've probably shot around 10 in blue phase.
Don't see many greaters down here.
Re: Greater snow goose blue phase
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 8:23 am
2nd goose from top. Larger head and longer body than both the blue and snow beside it. Ross' at bottom.
Re: Greater snow goose blue phase
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 11:37 am
10 Greater Blues? They're almost non-existent. I know people who have hunted the Atlantic Flyway and shot Greater Snows by the hundreds their whole lives and have never killed one.dirtysouthducks wrote:Don't know the rarity of it, but I've probably shot around 10 in blue phase.
Looks definitely possible that's what you have though, Rob.
Re: Greater snow goose blue phase
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 2:43 pm
Ditto.arduckslayer wrote:Looks definitely possible that's what you have though, Rob.
From what I can see, it looks like a greater. Can you give a better close up of the bill?
Re: Greater snow goose blue phase
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 5:11 pm
I will take better pics soon.
Re: Greater snow goose blue phase
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 5:56 pm
Wingman, are those the ones that you confiscated from Bigwater, Tadpole and Champcaller? 
Re: Greater snow goose blue phase
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 7:26 pm
Don Miller wrote:Wingman, are those the ones that you confiscated from Bigwater, Tadpole and Champcaller?
rob, you think that biggun i showed you could of been one?
that thing was a monster of a goose... wish i took pics.
Re: Greater snow goose blue phase
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 7:52 pm
Mark, I wish you would've been there to here tadpole's comment.
TJ, I wondered the same thing about that big goose. How many did y'all end up with from that first sneak?
TJ, I wondered the same thing about that big goose. How many did y'all end up with from that first sneak?
Re: Greater snow goose blue phase
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 8:10 pm
137 i believe, and this...Wingman wrote:Mark, I wish you would've been there to here tadpole's comment.
TJ, I wondered the same thing about that big goose. How many did y'all end up with from that first sneak?
blue banded in Nunavut in '06
Re: Greater snow goose blue phase
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 8:35 pm
You do know it will come off the foot, right?
Re: Greater snow goose blue phase
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 8:48 pm
still trying to get this dam thing off.