<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dennis Paulson</div><div class="">Seattle<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 4, 2023, at 4:29 PM, Tom Benedict <<a href="mailto:benedict.t@comcast.net" class="">benedict.t@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I found <a href="https://birdsofwinter.org/snow-geese-of-the-pacific-flyway/" class="">an interesting article</a> 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.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m guessing that the small flock I saw today is eventually destined for California.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tom Benedict</div><div class="">Seahurst, WA<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 4, 2023, at 14:57, Tom Benedict <<a href="mailto:benedict.t@comcast.net" class="">benedict.t@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">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?<br class=""><br class="">This was over the Seahurst neighborhood in Burien, WA. The were flying parallel to the Puget Sound shoreline, a few hundred yards inland.<br class=""><br class="">Tom Benedict<br class="">Seahurst, WA</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">Tweeters mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Tweeters@u.washington.edu" class="">Tweeters@u.washington.edu</a><br class="">http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>