This snow goose, we believe, was seen in Marsh Creek, Saint John, on Oct. 14. The following day it was gone. A ruffed grouse, or possibly a spruce grouse, was having an apple on Highland Road, in Saint John, on Oct. 17. Even though we opened the car door, it wasn’t frightened and allowed us to shoot a few photos before it walked away into the woods. – Rebekah Johansson and Gerry McNulty, Saint John Yes, the white bird is an immature snow goose, quite a rare bird this far east. The majority of the Eastern Canadian population of snow geese migrate through Quebec at this latitude and only stragglers reach southern New Brunswick each spring and fall. It could well be the snow goose reported by David Jarvis on Oct. 23 on the west side of the city (shown in Oct. 31 Sightings). The other bird is a ruffed grouse. The less common spruce grouse is a bird of deep coniferous woods and is darker in colouration. Many young ruffed grouse disperse from the area they were born in the fall and can sometimes be found in unexpected places. – Jim Wilson