[obol] Clarification on geese, swan IDs

[Bobbett Pierce]

Sorry for my lazy identifications on the Columbia County Report.  I will 
write out the names from now on.  C. GEESE are Cacklers, which I hear far 
more than any other geese around here.  The flock of a couple hundred I saw 
on Friday were a tightly packed uniform group of smallish geese grazing.  
Not Duskies.  Sometimes we get interesting mixed flocks of all colors and 
sizes of subspecies, which are fun to study a bit more.  The dozen T. SWANS 
are Tundra, going by sound and what settles into Scappoose Bay every winter, 
up to 75 or so.  I hear them sometimes all night long out of my bedroom 
window in winter and wonder when they ever sleep. To rule out a stray 
Trumpeter or two I would have to study them with my scope, which I didn't 
do.  I guess that's how we miss the rarer species.  I know that Trumpeters 
are sometimes seen in the county, usually up at Trojan just south of the 
town of Rainier, so it wouldn't be out of the question. Lona Pierce, Warren

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