Subject: Re: Official Skagit Winter Birding Season Begins
Date: Oct 14 08:50:32 1996
From: Dennis Paulson - dpaulson at mirrors.ups.edu


Gary DuVall wrote:

> Today, Sat., Oct. 12, 1996, the Official Skagit Winter
> Birding Season began:
>
> Between about 5:00 and 6:00 PM four V-flights of Snow
> Geese (20-80 birds each) flew above the dike at the Skagit
> WRA North Access (west end of Rawlins Rd. on Fir Island,
> DeLorme p95, B5), heading south to points unknown around
> Skagit Bay and beyond - can many days spent freezing atop
> the dikes and at the West 90 be far behind?

Interestingly, at 09:10 on Saturday morning, 2 Snow Geese flew over my
house in Maple Leaf heading south. I wouldn't have seen them but for one
faint 'honk' drifting down from high in the sky. They were welcome not
only as a harbinger of winter (mixed emotions, definitely) but as my first
new yard bird in just over a year.

Dennis Paulson, Director phone 206-756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax 206-756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416