Hello Charlie,

We are very pleased you and scott were able to relocate the BEAN GOOSE at Bowerman Basin along with video you were able to take. We were able to get many good and convincing photos of the Bean Goose for documentation,including a photo taken in flight. We hope others will see this bird and that it will be put out more publically beyong Washington and Oregon. We agree the bird is very wary and shy and that at times can be difficult to locate since it can hide behind other geese or in a grassy dip and remain more concealing. Hopefully it will remain for the Grays Harbor CBC on the 14th.

Sincerely,

Ruth and Patrick Sullivan

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From: Birdking88 at aol.com
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 5:32 PM
Subject: Bean Goose still about


Hey Tweeters,
Scott Downes and I successfully chased the Bean Goose (found Saturday by Patrick Sullivan) today in spite of the dark, dreary conditions. We began searching there at about 8:15am, and walked around the entire area until finally locating the bird at the west end of the air strip just before noon. We got decent scope views from about 120 yards (the whole goose flock and especially the Bean Goose was extremely wary, and would not allow a closer approach), and I did get some relatively poor video through the scope. About 10 or 15 minutes later, a part of the flock flew off to the west, and thereafter we couldn't refind the Bean. A couple other birders were in the area, but nobody else had seen it today as of 12:45 (when we left). We would agree that it is probably the Siberian A. f. middendorffii subspecies with a long, somewhat thin-based bill and an orange strip near the tip of the bill. Also present in this varied flock were several dozen ! Cacklers, 15 Duskies, and 3 Snow Geese.

Good birding,
Charlie Wright
Birdking88 at aol.com
Sumner, WA
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