Haines School students admired a Snow Goose that was separated from its flock last week.

Flocks of snow geese passing through Haines on their way north are a common spring sight along the shoreline of Chilkat Inlet.

But what was a single, young snow goose doing at the Haines School lawn last Tuesday morning, pecking around in the dirt near the Friendship Pole as children nearby loaded out of buses and cars?

Sixth-grader Gauge Christiansen,…