Subject: [Tweeters] Snow Geese over Seattle
Date: Oct 16 11:31:26 2006
From: Lou Ann Harris - montlou at earthlink.net


I also had a small flock of Snow Geese fly over my Bellevue home last
night (Sunday). We heard them first, then we could just make out
their loose V formation against the clouds. They were headed south.

Lou Ann Harris
Bellevue

On Oct 15, 2006, at 9:13 PM, merlinmania at comcast.net wrote:

> 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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