Visit the Trumpeter Swan Society website to find an out-of-date tidbit about
K17 and her mate, who wears the satellite transmitter. Apparently, these two
have been wintering in the Skagit Valley for some time.

http://www.trumpeterswansociety.org/washington.htm

Kelly McAllister
Olympia, Washington



----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Bletsch" <garybletsch at yahoo.com>
To: "tweeters tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 10:44 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] Trumpeter k17 spotted


> Dear Tweeters,
>
> I cannot find the address where I should direct this,
> but I saw a couple of neck-banded Trumpeter Swans on
> 11-23-07. They were on the Butler Flats, north of
> Burlington, Skagit County, near the east end of
> Kelleher Road.
>
> One had a green neck collar with the white characters
> "K17." The second character was a vertical stroke with
> no serifs--I assume it was a "one."
>
> The total number of birds in the flock was 14, all
> Trumpeters. Another banded bird had a white collar of
> sorts on its neck. This collar had no numerals or
> letters that I could see; a slender, dark-colored
> object protruded along the side of the cylindrical
> collar. i am guessing it was a radio transmitter.
>
> Yours truly,
>
> Gary Bletsch
>
> PS When I tried to figure out what that second
> character was in "K17," it reminded me of a Brian
> Regan comedy sketch. The customer service rep in the
> sketch is giving the customer a code number that he
> will have to input, and the code number is made up of
> nothing but lower-case ells, ones, zeroes, and letter O's.
>
>
> Yours truly,
>
> Gary Bletsch
>
> near Lyman (Skagit County), Washington
>
> garybletsch at yahoo.com
>
>
>
>
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