Subject: Re: Fw: Grays County Harbor weekend: 19-21 September 1997
Date: Sep 22 19:03:23 1997
From: "Ruth Sullivan" - GODWIT at worldnet.att.net


hi mchael,
respondig about the lone snow goose on bowerman basin.we had a lone snow
goose in ocean shores with a flock of canada goose on july 26.1996.listen
to the expert birders, it isn't so unusualy to see this birds at such early
date.


GODWIT at worldnet.att.net

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> From: Michael Price <mprice at mindlink.bc.ca>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: Fw: Grays County Harbor weekend: 19-21 September 1997
> Date: Monday, September 22, 1997 11:18 AM
>
> Hi Tweets,
>
> Andy Stepniewski writes:
>
> >Also there were a lone Snow and
> >White-fronted Goose.
>
> Found out last year that Snow Geese typically migrate first in one's and
> two's, then en masse a week or two later. If this bird hadn't been a
> hanger-on since the northbound migration in April, I'd suggest this may
be
> the first southbound migrant Snow for 1997.
>
> Michael Price The Sleep of Reason Gives Birth to Monsters
> Vancouver BC Canada -Goya
> mprice at mindlink.net