Very cool! I had a small flock around 9:30 or so, I would be right in the middle? I had 5 flocks, one I think was snow geese but I cannot be sure, they sounded just like the geese on animal planet migration show the other night. Rich heard them and thought the same thing around 7:00. We know they were not Canada geese, as we get many of them overhead.

Dawn Bailey
Eatonville, WA
dawnsdog at rainierconnect.com


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----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Danzenbaker
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Greater White Fronted Geese


Hi Tweeters and J.

Interesting that you reported these Geese. Down here in Battle Ground, Clark County, I somehow woke up at 2:30 this morning and heard several flights of what sounded like Greater White-fronted Geese flying over my yard. They were flying over bewteen 2:30m and 3:15am at a time when there were broken clouds and some stars showing. The same ones that flew over Bainbridge Island? Bainbridge Island is about 140 miles due north of me which means that the geese would have to have traveled 140 miles in 7 hours or 20 mph into a southerly breeze. Does that sound about right for goose flight? I missed another flock of geese this morning by a few minutes and another group of four large Canada Geese and two smaller ones that looked like some variety of Cackling Geese - who knows what they were. They're back..........

By the way, I attended the Portland Birder's Night last night and Harry Niehls predicted that last night and tonight would have a good goose flight. Wow, he was right on the money!

Jim Danzenbaker
Kowa Sales Manager for the Americas
perched in Battle Ground, Clark County WA


On 10/3/07, owler at sounddsl.com < owler at sounddsl.com> wrote:
Last night between 7:30 and 8:00 PM while checking on some Barred Owls,
several large flocks of Greater White Fronted Geese passed over Bainbridge
Island. They were calling constantly, and headed south.

-J. Acker
Bainbridge Island, WA
Owler at sounddsl.com





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