Tweets,
Its the night of the Snow Goose. At about 8:35 PM this evening we had
about 30 individuals fly over our apartment. Its next to Bitter Lake
for anybody interested. They were quite high, maybe 300-400 feet up. Its a
gorgeous sight (as I said last year when we had the same thing happen in
late October) to see a v-formation of white geese flying against a black
night sky. I'm speculating, but I'm assuming the early geese will be
heading for the Willamette Valley or California? If so heads up to our
portion of Oregon and California tweets. What a great day;
first the ballgame, now birds!

Scott Downes
sdownes at u.washington.edu
Seattle WA



On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Michael Price wrote:

> Hi Tweets,
>
> First there were the posts from Harry Nehls and Don Cecile and others about
> the Canada Goose migration well under way and wondering if I'd missed them
> overflying Vancouver. Well, they decided to put me out of my misery this
> afternoon.
>
> A flock of about 500 Dusky's went over my house about 100 meters up, in
> line-abreast in a line almost half a kilometer long. In the late afternoon,
> when Ken and Kris Klimko and myself were at Ferguson Point in Stanley Pk
> looking for the Elegant Terns reported earlier--no luck BTW, but lots of
> Harlequin Ducks on the W side of the park and over at Ambleside--another
> flock of about 200 birds came out of Georgia Strait from the NW.
> Higher-pitched calls and much more vocal than a flock of the local golfers
> and Lost Lagoon layabouts moving from the roosting lake/pond to the courses
> and park lawns where they spend the day.
>
> Then a couple of days ago, I saw the post from Patrick Sullivan listing the
> birds he saw at Ocean Shores, I noted 'Snow Goose 2' and thought, yes
> they're due any time, but we already had one go-round on the subject so bite
> your tongue on remarking about 'scout' Snow Geese, Mr P.
>
> But walking home from the store tonight, the sky sounded as if at least half
> of it was covered by Snow Geese coming in from the NW, very high up and
> circling. They're back.
>
> Finally, there was a very large flock (400-500) of Band-tailed Pigeons
> circling over the Broadway and Alma section at the W edge of Kitsilano.
> There's a few Sharp-shinned and Cooper's Hawks and Merlins around the
> neighborhood right now; the pigeons seemed to be in bunched panic flight.
>
> 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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