Thank you, Dennis. I will sign my posts appropriately in the future.

They were Snow Geese. I got an excellent look at them. They were right in
front of me. They flew as I got closer. There was no mistaking them. I have
been birding for 20 years and I have seen thousands of Snow Geese. These
were not domestic geese. They were not Ross's Geese. They were Snow Geese.
I realize that the sighting is unusual and that is why I reported it.

Nancy Hertzel
Maple Valley, Washington

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis K Rockwell" <dennis.rockwell at gte.net>
To: <autumn207 at comcast.net>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: Yakima


> Hi,
>
> A note, offered in a friendly tone: etiquette on tweeters requires that
we
> all sign our posts with both first and last names and city and state where
> we're located.
>
> Regarding snow geese in those ponds south of Yakima: Ah, how good a look
> did you get at them ? With birds, of course, almost anything is
> theoretically possible, but this would represent a highly unlikely
sighting
> in early July. Feral white barnyard geese would be far more likely given
> the location and date.
>
> Dennis Rockwell Kennewick, WA dennis.rockwell at gte.net
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nancy" <autumn207 at comcast.net>
> To: "tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 8:06 AM
> Subject: Yakima
>
>
> > I birded in eastern WA this weekend. About 10 miles south of Yakima in a
> > pond on the west side of the freeway were four Snow Geese. Late
lingerers
> or
> > post-breeders?
> >
> > Nancy
> > Maple Valley
> >
> >
>