Brant

This small goose is a winter visitor to New England waters. Brants, known in Europe as Brent Geese, breed on the coast of the Arctic Ocean and winter along the Pacific Coast from Alaska to Baja California, the Hudson Bay, the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the New England coast. This small group was part of a larger flock feeding off Plum Island. They flew in and started dining on eelgrass and other sea grasses next to the rocky shore. They didn’t seem to mind the rough surf at all.