Dear Tweeters,

Having to take a day off for a doctor's appointment
wasn't so bad after all. I raced down from Skagit
County after the appointment, to find the Emperor
Goose right there where it has been reported, on the W
side of SR 9, just S of Marsh Road, on the SW side of
the town of Snohomish. The bird was with a Greater
White-fronted Goose. Another 13 or so of these
Greater-white-fronts foraged apart from the odd
couple. Lots of Trumpeter Swans, a few Tundra Swans,
quite a few Cackling Geese, a few Canada Geese, and a
few Glaucous-winged Gulls were also foraging in the
field. Single American Pipit and Northern Harrier were
there. Also, the Greater-white Fronted Geese were
being mean to a couple of Dunlin, chasing after them
and flushing them now and then.

After finding four species of geese in one field,
which I think is the most geese species I had ever
seen in one day, I decided, the heck with report
cards! I went to Fir Island, where Snow Geese were of
course all over the place. Then I zipped up to Padilla
Bay at dusk, in time to find a few thousand Brant out
on the bay. Six species of geese in one day! I doubt I
will ever see that again!

Thanks to Steve Mlodinow and other Tweeters for making
my day!

Now if I could just get the last of these darn cards
printed off....

Yours truly,

Gary Bletsch


Yours truly,

Gary Bletsch

near Lyman (Skagit County), Washington

garybletsch at yahoo.com




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