Wow, never thought I'd detect this one for the yard... SNOW GOOSE!!! Very
noisy flyovers moments ago (0557hrs) and continued noisily circling around
for about 10 minutes. Couldn't see 'em of course (dark), but from the
sound of things quite a few (maybe a couple hundred?) and not all that high
before drifting off to the south, probably headed for California I suppose.
They seemed a bit confused, thus the circling, and here likely due to
overnight and continuing brisk though now diminishing post-frontal SW winds
which perhaps shifted them east a bit off a more likely track. This becomes
#88 now in 20 years of record keeping at this location and first new 'yard'
bird here since #87, a Turkey Vulture on Sep 25, 2011.

Richard Rowlett
Bellevue (Eastgate S of 90), WA