In their comment, Feser et al. <2003> argue that the NCEP Reanalysis surface winds used by Alford <2003; henceforth A03> are artificially high at high frequencies due to temporal aliasing. This possibility is investigated here by direct comparison with buoy winds in the northeastern Atlantic. As in a previous more extensive buoy comparison in the Pacific <Alford, 2001; henceforth A01>, no evidence for aliasing of NCEP winds is found.