Michael Price writes:
>On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Dennis Paulson writes:

>>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.

>After I'd seen 2 Snow Geese over Point Grey in Vancouver BC on Sunday Sep
>29, someone told me that the very earliest migrant Snows are usually in
>pairs, acting as scouts for the main bodies of birds behind them, and that
>without hearing the scouts' 'It's Cool' calls from the ground, the main
>flocks will overfly to an alternate staging/wintering area.

>Will a bridge salesman call on me if I believe this?

Dennis, you better start practicing your Snow Goose "It's cool" calls (or
would that be honks). Imagine the possibilities for your yard list...

Ed Schulz
Everett, WA
eschulz at eldec.com