Brendan, Tweets,

Curious, but I was seawatching at the Rainier Beach overlook yesterday (October 8) about 11 AM and watched four adult Snow Geese flying NORTH well out in mid sound. A new Kitsap County bird for me, seen from the King County side.

Gene Hunn
18476 47th Pl NE
Lake Forest Park, WA 98155
enhunn323 at comcast.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Brendan Higgins
To: tweeders post address
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 10:06 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] Snow Geese over Seattle


Hi everyone,

today my brother and I were sitting in our backyard in north Seattle when my brother looked up and saw a whole mess of geese. There were at least 100, probably more and we noticed that they were 1, not flying in any sort of formation that resembled a "V" and 2, their call was decidedly not Canadian (I didn't hear a single eh). we ran inside for binoculars which were not powerful enough to really see anything because they were so high up. once we got the scope on them we could see that they were white with black wingtips. they were heading due south very high up and I'm wondering why they didn't stay in Skagit. my best guess is the Klamath basin in N. California????
also I thought I heard a varied Thrush singing but I cant be sure without seeing them. I'm still working on their calls.

Brendan Higgins
Frogdude at gmail.com
Seattle, WA


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