A large number of Brants congregated along the Connecticut coast recently.
Brants on the Connecticut coast
john's f-stop
Photography and image manipulations by john h. gregory
A large number of Brants congregated along the Connecticut coast recently.
john's f-stop 
I see them often when I walk the Niantic Boardwalk. Once saw a flock of almost 200!
Dictated to my iPhone
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This group included more than 20 hanging around rocks to the left of this image. We have seen brants around the island only in the last few years. They are close to canada geese as a species, which I did not realize until recently.