Hey baby, get yourself down, to Honky Town!

I'm referring to Everett Wa., where we have honky's all over. I don't mean white people (although there's plenty of us), I mean white geese , Snow Geese, that are commuting over Everett on a regular basis. I have been posting about this phenomenon for a few years now, but I'm just as excited as ever to hear Snow Geese calling overhead, right here in town. They tend to fly over during sort of human commuter hours - morning and evening , on trips back and forth from the Skagit/Port Susan area night roost's.
I,ve lived in Everett for 25 years now, but this commuter geese thing is a fairly recent phenomenon it seems to me ; the past 4 or 5 years or so. Keep your ears open when in Everett. Snow Geese- it's a pretty cool scene.

Today I was down plant shopping at a nursery south of Woodinville, down on the Sammamish floodplain. Slogging through puddles, the sky full of water, it was good goose weather. Out on the back 40 I saw some flocks of dark birds going North. It was so wet I couldn't see all that well, but I did hear them calling- more Honky's! But they were dark, stubby, and sounded different than the usual Honkers: Cackling Geese! Several hundreds of them flying by in small vee's of 25 to 50 or so. I had never heard Cackling Geese before as most times I've seen em' was with Snow Geese up in Skagit and the white geese overwhelmed the soundscape. I confirmed what I heard at home, with Seattle Audubon's Birdweb recordings- a great resource for the app-less population.

So a new sound for me today!

Jeff Gibson
Honky Town