Those dark geese: could they have been Brant?

In Port Townsend, we have had a couple of hundred Brant hanging around
on and off the spit that is exposed at less than high tide for the last
six or seven weeks. They sound like wht you might have been seeing?

Dave Grainger

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n 2020-04-16 18:17, Marcy D'Addio wrote:

> Still hearing and seeing Cacklers in Redmond, WA. The flocks fly back

> and forth over our house on Education Hill, from northwest to

> southeast.

> Marcy D'Addio

> Redmond

>

> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 3:37 PM Philip Dickinson <pdickins at gmail.com>

> wrote:

>

>> There seem to be a lot of cacklers in the area right now.

>>

>> Phil Dickinson

>>

>> Sent from my iPhone

>>

>>> On Apr 16, 2020, at 3:28 PM, byers345 at comcast.net wrote:

>>

>>> 

>>>

>>> Hello Tweeters,

>>>

>>> We had a fairly large (50-60) flock of geese

>>> flying in a sort of semicircle go over our house in Edmonds this

>>> morning. We could hear them plainly and they weren't Canada

>>> Geese, but I'm not sure what they were (no bins). They were

>>> dark geese with some white on the head and I thought perhaps

>>> Cackling Geese or White-fronted Geese. Did any of you Edmonds

>>> birders happen to see these birds fly over?

>>>

>>> Thanks, Charlotte Byers,

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