Subject: Re: Official Skagit Winter Birding Season Begins
Date: Oct 15 14:50 PD 1996
From: Michael Price - mprice at mindlink.bc.ca


Hi Tweets

On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Gary Duvall writes:

>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?

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?

Michael Price
Vancouver BC Canada
mprice at mindlink.net