After reading the following discussion, I was surprised to hear that large
flocks of Canada Geese had not yet been encountered. Locally, in Port
Alberni, (mid-vancouver island) where we do not get very large flocks of
geese, we had significant numbers moving through the area in early
September. The outer coast, typically gets thousands of geese (both Canadas
and GWF) moving north but they are not encountered in nearly the same
numbers in the fall. Either the GWF take a more oceanic route southbound or
both species take a more inland route in the fall. I suspect the latter,
and based on the following discussion, I would suspect that the majority of
geese have yet to move through the area.

At 01:31 02/10/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Tweets,
>
>Re southbound Canada Geese arriving in the more southern parts of Cascadia,
>
>>** Micahel P. wrote -
>>So, Thursday or Friday, say.
>
>To which Jack Bowling replied:
>
>>Patience, my friend. We have to let former Typhoon Ginger cross first
>>Friday/Saturday, then we get into the NWlies on its backside. So Sunday
>looks
>>like the day to watch for the first skeins fo fall...
>
>Then Harry Nehls upsets all this lovely speculation when he wrote in the
>Oregon Alert for Oct 01 1997:
>
>>CANADA GEESE and SANDHILL CRANES are now arriving in good numbers on Sauvie
>Island.
>
>Maybe the first flocks have simply overflown the Vancouver BC area.
>Interesting no-one saw or heard them (I was really looking for them up in
>the NW sky yesterday when it was so clear. Wonder what their route could
>have been.
>
>Michael Price We aren't flying...we're falling with style!
>Vancouver BC Canada -Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story
>mprice at mindlink.net
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cheers,

Don Cecile
dcecile at cln.etc.bc.ca