[Tweeters] Yet Another Snow Goose Report ...

[jimbetz at jimbetz.com]

Tweet!  Tweet!

   Actually it was more like Honk!  Honk!  Honk! ... ad infinitum.

   Rhetorical Question - do snows ever get truly quiet?  My answer - NOPE!

   We went to the Jensen Access (Maupin Rd.) and Hayton Reserve today.
There were snows everywhere.  We also saw a large flock near the
Swinomish Slough bridge.  We were there between about 2 and 4.

   We saw them flying, landing, taking off, feeding on grasses, squabling
over feeding locations, droppings falling into the water at Hayton just in
front of where we were standing on the dike.  We saw them get stirred up
because a couple of GBHs flew over them - and saw them ignore a Bald
Eagle flying over them also.  We saw them sharing a field with several
hundred Cackling Geese (there are more Cacklings than I've ever seen at
one time this year).  We did not see them on the Samish Flats or the
Butler Flats or the Skagit Flats.  There were thousands and thousands
on Fir Island ... all concentrated near the South end of Fir (Skagit Bay
and the fields along it).  Snow Geese literally everywhere in that area.
   When I was there just before Sunset on Tuesday you could see them
"getting up and swirling around and settling back down" from Stanwood
to La Conner.  And then doing it all over again.
   The two eagles around the nest at Hayton seemed pretty bored with
the whole show.  "Would you guys please tone it down a couple notches
so we can take a nap?"

   We still haven't figured out how to have ice cream from Snow Goose
Produce -and- Turkey with Brie and Cranberries at The Rex.  It's one
or the other but not both.  One of Life's most confusing trade offs!

                                     - Jim