Subject: [Tweeters] Ross's Goose?
Date: Jan 21 23:36:08 2011
From: Gary Bletsch - garybletsch at yahoo.com


Dear Hans and Tweeters,
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Marti and Lew were kind enough to fill me in on some of the info. It sounds as if they saw a very small immature of one of the white geese. A Snow? Goose X Ross's Goose?hybrid or Ross's Goose?seemed to Marti and Lew?to be the most likely ID's. They will send me photos when they get home to Oregon.
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I think the bird was seen in the fields north and east of I-5 Conway Exit, near?a fruit stand, judging from the message I got from Marti and Lew. Perhaps his refers to the big new fruit stand that was built in the corner of the field where corn-mazes used to be set up every fall.
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The bird was gone on their second day looking for it again. They said it was with a relatively small flock of Snow Geese mixed in with a lot of swans. It would pay off?for birders to search around in the fields in that area, also those to the south along Pioneer Highway, on Fir Island, and on the flats west of Burlington. Those are the main places where the Snow Geese have been latey. Reminds me of the Whooper Swan searches we all mounted a few years ago!
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Yours truly,
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Gary Bletsch
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Near Lyman, Washington (Skagit County), USA
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garybletsch at yahoo.com
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Mentre che li occhi per la fronda verde
ficcava ?o s? come far suole
chi dietro a li uccellin sua vita perde,
lo pi? che padre mi dicea: ?Figliuole,
vienne oramai, ch? ?l tempo che n?? imposto
pi? utilmente compartir si vuole?.
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--- On Fri, 1/21/11, Hans-Joachim Feddern <thefedderns at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Hans-Joachim Feddern <thefedderns at gmail.com>
Subject: [Tweeters] Ross's Goose?
To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Date: Friday, January 21, 2011, 10:30 PM


In Marti and Lew Ligoski's earlier post, they mentioned a Ross's Goose with Snow Geese along I-5, around Conway I believe. Seems to me that this would be an interesting sighting in Western Washington. We have seen several postings the last couple of days about Snow Geese or the lack of them Has anybody else seen and/or looked for the Ross's Goose?

Cheers,
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Hans Feddern
Twin Lakes/Federal Way, WA
thefedderns at gmail.com


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