Subject: [Tweeters] Whooper Swan
Date: Feb 11 21:00:59 2007
From: jd.333 at comcast.net - jd.333 at comcast.net


Russ has asked me to post this message about the Whooper Swan:

Tweeters~

2/10 I searched alongside many others in vain for the Whooper Swan on Saturday all day, checking and rechecking every swan flock I could find.

2/11 On Sunday, I woke up and found the WHOOPER SWAN at 7:45 am in the first flock I checked. The swan was located 1.8 miles north on Skagit City Rd (north of Fir Island Rd. & the church) in a bare dirt field with about 300 other swans. The 1000+ Snow Geese that were at this location yesterday had not arrived yet.

There is a lady at the Texaco station (cafe) that puts updated sightings of the swan on the door. This gas station is located on the north side of Fir Island Rd. where it first begins west of I-5.

Good birding,
Russ Namitz
Coos Bay, OR