Subject: [Tweeters] Snow Geese over Seattle
Date: Oct 16 08:43:51 2006
From: Eugene and Nancy Hunn - enhunn323 at comcast.net


Tweets et al.,

I also saw four Snow Geese flying southwest over Harbor Island about 5 PM
yesterday.

Gene Hunn.

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Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 9:13 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] Snow Geese over Seattle


> Hi Tweets,
>
> On Friday evening a small flock of Snow Geese flew over our house in West
> Seattle. I heard them when I stepped outside around 9 PM. At the time I
> wasn't sure what kind of geese they were - maybe Cacklers or White-fronts
> I thought. Then, as I looked up I saw an open V-shaped line of white birds
> go over, perhaps 500 or 1,000 feet up (very hard to estimate).
>
> I noticed later that another Tweeterite saw geese over Brier (north
> of Seattle) on Friday and that they are showing up in the Skagit already.
>
> Its nice to have them back, and even more fun to encounter them on
> migration through the central sound area.
>
> good birding,
>
> Jim Flynn
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