It's not that unusual, though numbers will increase dramatically in
March-April as the spring migration peaks. We had small flocks on the
Seattle CBC off West Point and Alki. There are almost always some off Alki
in December.

Gene Hunn, Seattle, hunnhome at accessone.com

At 09:29 AM 1/17/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi All--
>
>Yesterday I visited some friends on Vashon Island, and we walked the
>nearby beach. In a salt marsh next to the beach there were 22 brant.
>
>Doesn't this seem an odd time for brant to be in the Puget Sound?
>Any thoughts?
>
>I don't know the name of the beach, but it was on the east side,
>probably about mid-island, and the beach had a radio tower on it. The
>birds may have been brownish which would indicate juvenile according to
>my National Geo.
>
>Margie Palmer
>Kenmore
>
>