Bar-headed Goose, a fairly common escape.

http://home.att.net/~DanCowell/barhead.html

Irene Wanner wrote:
>
> Pals:
>
> I was at Rattlesnake "Lake" today (there is only a wee puddle left, if you
> doubt there's going to be a water shortage!), and a pair of geese were
> putzing around. One was your garden variety Canada honker, but the other
> is not in my bird book: s/he was gray, with orange legs, a dun neck with a
> VERTICAL cream stripe, whitish head with two thin black angling lines
> below the eyes/across face. It was a bit smaller than the Canada.
> Gorgeous.
>
> Anyone have any ideas what it is? They looked like they were content
> there, so you could go see them. Take I-90 to exit 34 (just past N Bend),
> turn R at the exit stop sign, follow the road ca. 4 mi to end at
> Rattlesnake Lake.
>
> Irene
> Seattle, CD

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