Subject: Re: Pacific NW Canada Geese Races
Date: Oct 11 20:07:03 1997
From: "Ruth Sullivan" - GODWIT at worldnet.att.net


hi gene,
maybe I misunderstand you message, you had 75 aleutian canada geese. my
anderstanding, off this race is quite hard to find.the bird book:fieldguide
to the birds of north america,says so.in the large flock off 25 ore so we
had one ALEUTEN. this was in ocean shores 10/27/1996.there was a photo in
WOS NEWS 48 under washington field notes ocean shores had so manny canada
goose today i stopped counting i din't even had no cackling race we had one
the other day on the golf course with one hanging wing hardle he could
fly.the cackling goose are my favoured.
ruth

GODWIT at worldnet.att.net

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> From: Eugene Hunn <hunnhome at accessone.com>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: RE: Pacific NW Canada Geese Races
> Date: Saturday, October 11, 1997 6:35 PM
>
> 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
> >
> >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.
> >
> >Gene Hunn.
> >
> >>Jon. Anderson
> >>Olympia, Washington
> >>festuca at olywa.net
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >