Subject: [Tweeters] Snipe sighting (with photo in Woodinville) and migrating
Date: Mar 3 17:30:42 2011
From: Jacki Bricker - seaotter at eskimo.com
Last weekend we photographed a Snipe (Gallinago gallinago?) in Woodinville.
It must have been migrating because it rested/foraged for two days but we
haven't seen it since.
See for yourself:
http://www.facebook.com/ScubaOtter#!/photo.php?fbid=10150103253608507&set=a.
112183438506.100280.603283506&theater
Yesterday (Friday March 4th), there was a flock of migrating adult and
juvenile swans in the Snoqualmie River valley between Woodinville and
Duvall, with a large flock of at least two subspecies of Canadian geese.
They were resting/foraging for over two hours on the north side of
Woodinville-Duvall Road. Unfortunately, my camera battery died. By the time
I could get back there they'd left. Without zoom or spotting scope I
couldn't determine if they were Cygnus columbianus or Cygnus buccinator.
:-(
I know the spots in Skagit and northward (to the Canadian border) to
photograph Wrangel Island Snow Geese and species of wild swans.
ASK: But does anyone know a likely spot to catch migrating WILD swans in
the Woodinville/Duvall/Carnation/Monroe area? I'd love a chance to
photograph them here. Thanks.