Subject: Re: Mute Swans, New Westminster BC 4/28/97
Date: Apr 29 08:28:24 1997
From: Peggi & Ben Rodgers - woodduck at cruzio.com


At 08:13 AM 4/29/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Tweets,
>
>A pair of free-flying Mute Swans overflew the office in New Westminster
BC...snip...
>
>That's just what the local avifauna needs: another alien species--and this
>one the avian equivalent of the grizzly bear--quite literally muscling in on
>feeding and nesting territory.

Australian Black Swans are escapees in the Eugene area. I wonder if we'll
begin seeing Black Swans here and there.

Peggi
Ben & Peggi Rodgers
Aptos, CA (near Santa Cruz 122 W, 37 N)
USA
woodduck at cruzio.com


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