Thank you, Gary! I hope you will receive this response along with everyone
else.
I will ask the owners of Snow Goose market whether they have ever seen
Trumpeters this early as they often have a good " overview" of all what's
happening in the area.
Best wishes,
Ronda
On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 3:44 PM Nancy Crowell <
nkcrowell at gmail.com> wrote:
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I noted snow geese in Skagit on 10/4 last year, so not that early. Just
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ran into a couple of people who said they saw snowgeese and white fronted
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geese flying over Fir Island this morning.
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Nancy Crowell
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La Conner
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Nancy
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"Images for the imagination."
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www.crowellphotography.com
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of Ronda Stark <rondastark18 at gmail.com>
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*Sent:* Wednesday, September 27, 2023 10:33:53 AM
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*To:* jimbetz at jimbetz.com <jimbetz at jimbetz.com>
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*Subject:* Re: [Tweeters] FOF!
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Hi Jim,
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That is exciting news! Isn't it super early for both Snow Geese and
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Trumpeters?
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Thanks for the update,
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Ronda
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On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 10:30 AM <jimbetz at jimbetz.com> wrote:
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First of Fall - about 100 Snow Geese in two wedges moving South over
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Gardner
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road area. Medium altitude (2 or 3 thousand feet at most), so perhaps,
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looking for somewhere to settle for the night/a few days/the season.
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Confirmed
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with binoculars as they flew close over our house.
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Not confirmed but possibly also 3 Trumpeter Swans this A.M. They
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disappeared
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from my view before I could get the binoculars working. They were flying
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South, low over Gardner road (a couple of hundred feet high at most). The
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only other bird(s) it could have been was some gulls ... but I rushed to
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get the binoculars only to loose track of them.
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We've seen at least two Turkey Vultures, some Juncos and Black-capped
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Chickadees, a plethora of Anna's including 3 very small ones, and other
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assorted birds today. Among them at least one Red-tailed Hawk.
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- Jim and Loretta
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