Hi Richard and Tweets

What an almost coincidence - this morning I had a line of CACKLING GEESE with their high-pitched calls, go overhead here in Woodinville heading southwest (probably down to the sod farm along the Sammamish River). Number 83 on the yard list, last one was #82 Hairy Woodpecker on 29 November 2007.

Brian H. Bell
Woodinville (Hollywood Hill)
mail to bell asoc at iso media dot com
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From: 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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