Subject: Bar-headed Goose at Lilliwaup Estuary-Hood Canal
Date: Feb 4 11:40:56 2001
From: Betty Boyd - critrhse at olypen.com


I saw and took pictures of a bar headed goose sometime last year,in the
summer, maybe.
I could not identify it until I bought the Sibley guide. I wonder if it
could be the same bird..Has not been at Kah Tai Lagoon in Pt. Townsend since
I took the pictures..

Betty
Chimacum
critrhse at olypen.com
----- Original Message -----
From: David Hayden <dtvhm at nwrain.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 7:18 PM
Subject: Bar-headed Goose at Lilliwaup Estuary-Hood Canal


> Today, Jim Pruske and I joined Andrew Beelik on his Hood Canal field
> trip. We birded mainly in Mason county with one stop in Jefferson
> county. We had mostly sunny skies with increasing clouds late in the
> afternoon. A Bar-headed Goose was seen at the Lilliwaup Estuary. We were
> informed by one of the local resident people that the goose came in last
> September with Canada Geese and has been there all winter. Could this be
> the same goose that the Seattle area has had in the past?
> We had 50 species of birds for the day with the following highlights.
>
> Duckabush (Jefferson county):
> A flock of Pine Sisken
> 1 Merlin with Pine Sisken in talons.
> 9 Trumpeter Swans (8 adult 1 imm)
>
> Hamma Hamma: (Mason county)
> 15 Dunlin
> 1 Black Turnstone
> 2 female Harlequin Duck
> 16 Black Scoters
>
> Potlacth S.P.: (Mason county)
> 20 Red Crossbills
> 3 Harlequin Duck (2 males 1 female)
>
> Union: (Mason county)
> 1 Red Throated Loon
> 30 Canvasback Ducks
>
> Dave Hayden
>