Tweets,

I thought I had posted this earlier but got no response. Still wondering.

Gene Hunn, clueless in Seattle.

>Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 21:11:02
>To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>From: Eugene Hunn <hunnhome at accessone.com>
>Subject: RE: Pacific NW Canada Geese Races
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>Gene Hunn, Seattle, WA
>
>An interesting post on Canada Geese, but one point confuses me. I thought
Taverner's were medium dark on the breast and small-medium sized (size of a
lesser but darker). I just saw a flock of 75 Canadas of that description at
the Kent ponds south of Seattle Sunday morning, Oct. 5. These Canadas also
showed a particularly distinct pattern of pale barring across the back.
There were a few Great Basin Canadas about as well, which were notably paler
below and larger. Of the 75, 3 showed a distinct white half collar between
black neck "stocking" and the dusky breast. My impression is that it is most
unlikely I had a flock of 75 Aleutian Canadas and they seemed too small for
dusky's (which, at least in the past, were common at Willapa Bay NWR in sw
Washington in Winter.
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>Gene Hunn.
>
>>Jon. Anderson
>>Olympia, Washington
>>festuca at olywa.net
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