On Sunday morning, 11-04-07, while biking on the Discovery Trail alongside the Strait of Juan de Fuca in Port Angeles (Clallam Co.) WA, I noticed a group of 37 Canada Geese grazing inside the fence around the old Rayionier mill site. I could see that two of the birds appeared to have something whitish on their necks. So I got out my 8X binocs and could see that each had a black colored neckband with three large, white letters and three, large adjoining white numerals vertically aligned in sequence around the neckband, as well as a silver legband on their left legs. From about a 100 ft. distance, I could only make out the neckband letters a bit more clearly to be BPA on one bird and BCD, or BCO, on the other. The first two (of three) numerals on at least one of the birds also seemed to be OO. These two banded birds were foraging together during the 10 minutes that I observed the group at the site. I've also submitted this info. electronically to the USFWS banding website. Please pass this info. on to whoever would want to know where these birds are now, etc. I'd also like to know where they were banded and have likely come from if possible.

Bruce Moorhead
4124 Old Mill Road
Port Angeles, WA 98362
bruceb at olypen.com