hi michael,
there are here now,in the 1000and more stop counting today on ocean
shores. where ever i went, this is all i could find. i try to carefull look
theme over,but din't find any cackling ore aleutian,leucopareia species.
ruth
GODWIT at worldnet.att.net

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> From: Michael Price <mprice at mindlink.bc.ca>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Canada & Snow Goose Migration
> Date: Friday, October 10, 1997 11:22 PM
>
> Hi Tweets,
>
> It seems the passage of that storm unleashed a huge migration backed up
> behind it. Should be lots arriving over the next few days.
>
> Just talked to Tony Greenfield (not on Tweeters), who lives on the
Sechelt
> Peninsula, about 35-40 km NW of Vancouver BC. He says that large flocks
of
> Canada Geese have been going over all day and evening long, and that when
he
> did some birding on one of the points in Georgia Strait this AM, the
Strait
> was "absolutely *filled* (his emphasis) with dense flocks of Mallards,
> Canada Geese, scoters, teal" going past.
>
> On my way home this evening, a flock of about 600 Snow Geese went over
> fairly high up heading not S but SE, as most of the migrant geese do when

> they turn in from the Strait, enter Burrard Inlet, and make landfall
usually
> about Kitsilano, the West End, or around Jericho Pk. At night, more often

> than not they circle over Kitsilano.
>
> Michael Price We aren't flying...we're falling with
style!
> Vancouver BC Canada -Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story
> mprice at mindlink.net