I heard many many geese fly over this morning during my walk,
there is a big movement. ?All of the large flocks were Snow Geese
except for one big flock of Cacklers. ?Very cool indeed, our friends
in SW Wash might have a lot of resting geese later this morning.
?
Kathy
Roosting in Kirkland,
(chukarbird at yahoo dot com)





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From: "Pterodroma at aol.com" <Pterodroma at aol.com>
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 6:30 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] Bellevue-Eastgate - new yard bird!


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
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