Subject: BEAN GOOSE:
Date: Jan 21 19:36:30 2003
From: Ruth Sullivan - godwit at worldnet.att.net


Hello Tweeters,
I wish i can report some good news about the lost Bean Goose.It is realy amazing that a team of the top birders in Oregon still looking for this rare Goose This birdrs are:
Jeff Gilligan Owen Smith and Jim Johnsonand others.There searched on two weekends for this Goose,this is wy we got inspired by this birders to do the same yesterday.It was amazing how many geese we found with an overwhelming prozent of beeing Duskys Canada.I been still hoping that maybe the Goose is still around and even close by and would be eventual show up as the Ruff did after fife weeks.But reading the well written Article in "THE OCEAN OBSERVER" by a well knowing writer here in the Nordwest Kathleen Wolgemuth who lives in Ocan Shores.As she writes the Bean Gose flew from the SAVE PLACE ON THE AIRPORT" to the place on K-Street where it got refound on Dezember the 15 that evening,and where he was sighted the late time on the 17th at 3.45 PM. Kathleen writes:The Bean Goose disappeared,although the same number of Dusky Canada Geese remained.Where did it go?Rumor suggests that some-one took it as a game trophy,but perhaps the late watcher had been lured there to admire a rare avis nothing more.(If you see a stuffed bean goose on a wall let me know.)The location on K-Street was mention in the Hoquim "THE DAIYLY WORLD"
with a photo of the Bean Goose and it says:; DONT COOK THIS GOOSE".A clear invitation who dont care fo rare Geese. A well known birder after we found this bird mention to me: I HOPE THIS GOOSE STAYS ON THE AIRPORT TO HUNTING IS OVER".What a wise remark was this.If any of you birder ging to Ocean shores in the next few week,please go in to the communiy Center what is close to Bills Spit,and pick you up a copy of the Ocean Observer.The people at the center are super friendly and the paper is free. And thank you Kathleen who writes such an
explicable story about the Bean Goose and this in the Ocean Shores Observer.

Ruth Sulivan
Tacoma