I had a similar experience over here on the Kitsap Penninsula where I had a large flock of Greater
White fronts overhead onBainbridge at 0540, and then a flock of probable snow geese over at Clear
Creek Trails in Silverdale at 0615...
The birds definitely took advantage ofthe break in the weather to move.
-Jamie



------- Original Message -------
>From : Kathy Andrich[mailto:chukarbird at yahoo.com]
Sent : 10/16/2012 6:58:37 AM
To : Pterodroma at aol.com; tweeters at u.washington.edu
Cc :
Subject : RE: [Tweeters] Early morning Goose Migration

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



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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