Dear Tweeters,

Coincidentally, we had mystery geese last night too. My wife Judy heard a
flock about 11:00 pm and I heard another about midnight, I think. We
settled on snow geese, more by elimination than by positive identifiers.
>From all the posts, I guess more are headed our way.

Darrel Whipple
Rainier, Oregon
dwhipple at columbia-center.org

At 05:53 PM 10/2/98 EDT, you 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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