Subject: Snow and Greater White-fronted Geese
Date: Nov 4 23:11:43 2000
From: Hill - hill at cbnn.net


Three weeks ago we counted 34,000 there, although no white ones. The
reserve area typically has 30-40,000 geese during the second half of
October, and they are starting to move farther south to McNary Refuge and
the Columbia River.

Randy Hill
Othello

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Moskwik" <yuhaus at hotmail.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 8:54 PM
Subject: Snow and Greater White-fronted Geese


> Tweeters,
>
> Today, my dad and I went on a Spokane Audobon field trip to Bank's
> Lake. The weather was not the best, so we decided to leave early, and on
> the way home we made a quick stop at Brook Lake, which is along highway 28
> just east of Soap Lake. Present on the lake were probably at least 15,000
> Canada Geese. Mixed in with the Canada Geese were several Greater
> White-fronted Geese, two Tundra Swans, and three Snow Geese. Is this
> unusual to see such a large congregation of Canada Geese in the Central
> Basin? In fact it was so impressive that several people on the highway
> pulled off the road to look at them.
>
> Matthew Moskwik
> yuhaus at hotmail.com
> Elk, WA
> _________________________________________________________________________
> Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
>
> Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at
> http://profiles.msn.com.