Hello Roland and Tweeters,
Reading Conni Slides where she approache the Goose on K-Street and all the dogs people walking on the dike and chasing the Goose.My thought would be the Bean Goose is still around.How about Rennie Island what is accross the river? Connis message was written on Dezember the 18th and she wrote about the cracy wild dogs what the owner had no control of.Would you think that this shy goose would stay around there?

Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma
----- Original Message -----
From: Rolan Nelson
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 7:01 PM
Subject: Phalarope Yes: Beener No!


It was kinda expected, I guess.

A lot better birders than I had struck out Friday and Saturday, but I just HAD to try! No sight of the Bean Goose today (Sunday) in a steady drizzle (yeck!) I'm just grateful there wasn't any wind. I tried the field off K Street from both sides, and walked the Sandpiper Trail boardwalk to the bitter end. I've never stared at so many Canadas before. Some of the views were... well, unflatering. I bumped into birders from Kirkland, Seattle, and even Newport, Oregon, but we all came up empty.

An excellent consulation prize was a life bird for me! The Red Phalaropes were right where they were supposed to be at the west end of the Hoquiam SP. A quick jaunt over to the Ocean Shores jetty netted a few more shorebirds but not much more. Impressive surf, though!

Good birding, and somebody, FIND THAT BEANER!

-Rolan



Rolan Nelson
Burley, WA
rnbuffle at yahoo.com




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