I heard geese this morning too, but was where I couldn't see them, and I don't know my geese calls well enough to identify.

Christine Southwick
N Seattle/Shoreline
clsouthwick at q.com

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On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, owler at sounddsl.com wrote:

> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:14:08 -0700
> From: "owler at sounddsl.com" <owler at sounddsl.com>
> To: chukarbird at yahoo.com, Pterodroma at aol.com, tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: RE: [Tweeters] Early morning Goose Migration
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> 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
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> ------- 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)
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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!
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> 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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