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From: linda+AF8-aw+AEA-ix.netcom.com +ADw-linda+AF8-aw+AEA-ix.netcom.com+AD4-
To: tweeters+AEA-u.washington.edu +ADw-tweeters+AEA-u.washington.edu+AD4-
Date: Saturday, October 18, 1997 10:05 PM
Subject: Different geese in Washington


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+AD4-Here's a puzzler-- can someone suggest what these birds were:
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+AD4-Yesterday a flight of geese(?) came over, in South Everett (near Puget
+AD4-Sound) heading south-southwest at dusk. They appeared to be geese, but the
+AD4-honks were more musical, quieter. I have only seen the Canadian geese
here,
+AD4-or snow geese in certain places, and a pair of different ones last weekend
+AD4-that were a more uniform brown about the head. This flight had more than a
+AD4-hundred birds in it, in a big bowing line, with only a few out of
formation.
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+AD4-What were these, do you think?
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+AD4-- Larry Whatley
+AD4- Everett, WA
+AD4- linda+AF8-aw+AEA-ix.netcom.com
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Might have been a Ross' Goose, but more probably a sub-species of Canada.