hello Eugene,
Interesting, patrick going to check this goose out tomorrow morning,see
what he comes up with.I went sunday, to see the Northern Mockingbird, Roger
the Rapture man, I dont know his last name,
told me there was a Ross-Goose but I wasn't going to look.
By any chance you went and checked the Gull on the Everett Public Boat
Launch out?
It suposed to be mybe a SLATY- BACKED GULL.a third year Bird,All the
SLATY-BACKED GULLS what ever been sighted from canada to oregon been adult
Birds,also I dont think is the right habitat.
By now certainly someone would identify this Bird.
Ruth
GODWIT at worldnet.att.net

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> From: Eugene Hunn <hunnhome at accessone.com>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Snow-Ross' type goose south of Kent
> Date: Tuesday, December 02, 1997 7:46 PM
>
> Sunday last after enjoying the mockingbird and looking in vain for the
> Prairie Falcon at the Kent ponds, I ran into a guy in a green pickup (I
> think it's the guy who first found the falcon & mockingbird) and he
> mentioned seeing a Ross' Goose a short while previously in a field near
the
> Smith Bros. dairy south of Kent on the West Valley Rd. So I motored on
down
> and sure enough found this white goose in the field with Canada's, mostly
> small, dark breasted cackling types (but some looking larger and darker
than
> I expect them to be, and one with a nice white collar)... The white goose
> with the black wing-tips and pink bill was with them and marginally
larger.
> Ah, Ross' I say to meself, but in the scope the bill seems heavy, high
> ridged, though grayish at the base and with the "grin" mark but not
> contrastingly black, nevertheless conspicuously present. Anyway, it
> eventually flew off with the Canada's across SR 167 to the se (it had
been
> in the field ne of the intersection at the cow statue at the Smith Bros.
> dairy. I don't believe it's a Ross' but it didn't look large enough and
> lacked the black grin mark of a Snow Goose. So maybe it's a hybrid. If
> anyone is in the area you might want to have a look. I'd be interested in
> your opinions.
>
> Gene Hunn, Seattle, hunnhome at accessone.com