Dear Tweeters,
Yesterday (the sixth of May) I was birding at Hayton Reserve on Fir Island (Skagit County), and was surprised to see two Snow Geese standing out in a big field of freshly ploughed earth. I looked over to the southeast and saw a big flock of large white birds. At first I thought it might be a flock of gulls, but I am pretty sure they were Snow Geese--upwards of a thousand of them. I think they would have been somewhere near Big Ditch Access, or perhaps over by Leque Island. 
That is a late date for this species in our area. A short time later, at the Game Range, I saw two Snow Geese that were almost certainly the same two I'd seen before. They were flying on a course that would take them along the shoreline, going from Hayton Reserve toward Stanwood.
Have other birders noticed a large, late flock of Snow Geese down by Stanwood lately?
Yours truly,
Gary Bletsch
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