Subject: Banded Snow Goose
Date: Oct 26 10:59:51 2003
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com


That old fashion keyhole is actually an 8 (eight).

You can report auxillary markers at:
http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/BBL/homepage/reptauxm.htm

Carol Riddell wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if I should, and where I should, report a banded lesser
> Snow Goose? Seen Saturday morning, 10 a.m., on Westham Island, B.C. We
> sighted it among a flock of several hundred in a farm field outside of the
> Reifel Sanctuary. It had a narrow metal band on its right leg and a wide,
> pale pink band around its neck. The neck band carried the designation 6H
> and had another marking that was in the shape of an old-fashioned keyhole.
> Thanks.
>
> Carol Riddell
> Edmonds, WA

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Mike Patterson
Astoria, OR
celata at pacifier.com

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The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.

- Wallace Stevens

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