** Michael Price wrote -

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> This evening I was sitting out a short sharp downpour in a coffee joint on
> West Broadway when I saw against the broken sunset clouds, skein after skein
> of scaup--about two thousand in all--flying first W than turning abruptly S
> and flying nearly overhead. What they were doing was flying W along the S
> side of Burrard Inlet, then S to cut across the base of the long peninsula
> of Point Grey. On the other side? Iona Island and points south. Suggestive,
> but not definitive until someone can track those birds somehow.
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If my increasingly dodgy memory serves, is that not the low point of the "saddle"
between the high points of Q.E. Park hill (forget its real name) and that of Point Grey
itself? Perhaps the birds are just taking the lowest, shortest route across to the Fraser
River side of the circuit. Still leaves open why they are doing it in the first place. And
do they always fly counter-clockwise? Aarrgh... getting queasy already thinking about it.

- Jack



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Jack Bowling
Prince George, BC
jbowling at direct.ca