<div dir="ltr">Wow, great photos.  And great that you submitted these.  <div>My first reaction.  Necks too skinny for Geese,  Therefore Sandhill Cranes.  Maybe?</div><div>I think so.</div><div><a href="https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/624234087" target="_blank">https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/624234087</a><br></div><div>Just a guess, but I think such an observation at such an altitude might be very significant.and worthy of further research.<br></div><div>Bob OBrien  Portland.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 3:09 PM Doug Plummer via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px">I saw several skeins of geese of some kind at Mt Rainier this morning, flying over the mountain east of the summit. I was hiking on the Sourdough Trail at Sunrise. I absolutely cannot ID them. Alas, my settings were not optimal, but here are 3 photos. Can anyone help? <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.flickr.com/photos/dougplummer/albums/72177720320635423/__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!lm0HPNps_3yCGTTBRBTmSwu2DusRwhg4CT_t96LuYFQzo0Bj2p8vCL4v86NXSoSHud-INtiqfse8Y2qKf8LQQCM$" id="m_2943547953568019155gmail-OWA8cf965a8-e096-9f89-c42a-c9c0083d00b5" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/dougplummer/albums/72177720320635423/</a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px">Doug Plummer</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px">Seattle</div></div>
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