My wife loves taking pics of birds and just about everything we see on our land. She has a Cannon S2 digital camera with a 12x optical zoom. If anybody is looking for a high quality camera with a fantastic zoom that's easy to use, this is the camera!!
She has hundreds of pictures of the goose and ducks, so I'm going through all of them to find a few to share here. hahaha
The band on the goose is plastic, but we can't read anything on it. I've thought about catching him and cutting it off to see what it says, but I'm also worried he might leave if I did that. I've heard people tell me he's a local pet, he's from Caldwell Zoo here in Tyler, and that he's a wild bird that some Fish and Game department someplace caught and put a band on. I've never shot a banded wild goose, but I have shot a few banded ducks and those bands were metal.
We have no idea where he came from or why he's sticking around. hahaha
To find Rouens, try the local free classifieds.
http://www.americanclassifieds.com/index.cfm Here it's calles the American Classifieds, and they come out every thursday. You can go to there website and do a search for what you're looking for and maybe get lucky. I found lots of other types of ducks this way, just no Rouens. I also looked on Ebay and there are some there from time to time, but none close to me.
Eddie
