I did not get the fortune to hear these geese last night, but the past
two years around the first week of October I have had Snow Gese flying
over my place in North Seattle, I live right accross the street from
Bitter Lake.
I will keep my eyes and ears open tonight. The past two years I have
documented the times as being around 9:30 in 1996 and 10:00 in 1997. Its
great to see that others are getting to see and hear this teriffic
sighting in the night sky.

Scott Downes
sdownes at u.washington.edu
Seattle WA



On Fri, 2 Oct 1998 birder at juno.com wrote:

> About 2:50 AM I awoke to the sound of a flock of birds, geese I think. It
> sounded like a large flock, the sound went on for a minute or so. The
> best description I can give is they sounded like a high pitched kind of
> musical barking. More flocks came over several more times, the last just
> before seven. I don't think they were Canadas or Greater White-fronted,
> the closest sound match I could find on my CD was Snow Geese. Would snow
> Geese be flying over Ballard at 2:50 AM? I'm not even sure they were
> geese...
>
> Also in Ballard were six or so Heerman's Gulls on the beach at Golden
> Gardens in the mixed flock of California and Ring-billed gulls at the
> mouth of the little creek on the south end of the beach. They were only
> about 30 feet from the sidewalk until an adult Bald Eagle flew over.
> About 10 Wigeons were in the pond with the huge crowd of resident
> Mallards, and I finally have Juncos in my back yard too. I should also
> mention I saw a Pileated Woodpecker in Upper Golden Gardens last year, I
> think. It's part of the BN greenbelt that runs from the canal north.
> =========================
> Cliff Drake
> (Ballard) Seattle, WA 98107
> birder at juno.com
>
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