At home with Canadas

Reflections on a lifelong love affair with a common bird that not long ago wasn’t so common

Pete Dunne

AS READERS OF this column probably realize, wife Linda and I spent last winter and early spring in California with her parents. Our return drive the first week in May was uneventful and spiked with birds not seen during our trip out in December — multiple Swainson’s Hawks, Scissor-tailed Flycatchers, and other gems. And while the bird riches of California’s Central Coast do not lack for abundance or charm, it was only on our first morning home that I realized that I had been deprived of the resonant two-note honk of the Canada Goose for five months. I’m not saying California is goose impoverished. Far from it. But this oh-so-common New Jersey resident bird was absent in the wine country where my in-laws reside. Here in New Jersey, they occupy…

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BirdWatching (Digital) - 1 Issue, July/August 2023

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