[Tweeters] Snow Geese Over Burien Flying North?

[Dennis Paulson]

Many of them winter on Sauvie Island near Portland, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there were other wintering groups between here and the Central Valley. In fact, large numbers now winter in eastern Washington, something unheard of not that many years ago. The population seems to be growing all the time. We seem to be creating a world that is very good for geese.

Dennis Paulson
Seattle


> On Oct 4, 2023, at 4:29 PM, Tom Benedict <benedict.t at comcast.net> wrote:

> 

> I found an interesting article <https://birdsofwinter.org/snow-geese-of-the-pacific-flyway/> which describes how most of the Snow Geese around here breed on Wrangell Island in the Russian Far East. Evidently about 40% of the Snow Geese we see in Puget Sound in fall are on their way further south to the California Central Valley and the remaining 60% remain for the winter, mainly in the Skagit and Fraser Valleys.

> 

> I’m guessing that the small flock I saw today is eventually destined for California.

> 

> Tom Benedict

> Seahurst, WA

> 

>> On Oct 4, 2023, at 14:57, Tom Benedict <benedict.t at comcast.net> wrote:

>> 

>> Just now, 2:50pm, October 3, 2023, I heard some squawking overhead and looked up to see 19 Snow Geese in “V" formation, headed _north_. That seems odd, for geese to fly north in the fall. Perhaps they were repositioning for later flight south?

>> 

>> This was over the Seahurst neighborhood in Burien, WA. The were flying parallel to the Puget Sound shoreline, a few hundred yards inland.

>> 

>> Tom Benedict

>> Seahurst, WA

> 

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