The Smew is still at Silver Lake in Rochester. Much of the ice disappeared since yesterday and I wasn't able to spot it right away but I did discover it on the east side of the lake, lurking a bit behind the island. Most of the migrating waterfowl seem to have moved on and, probably because of the weather system that dumped a lot of snow across Iowa, we haven't had many new visitors. I only noticed a single scaup on the lake today.
There were a couple of coot at the East Landfill Reservoir yesterday and the wigeon were still on the south reservoir. There are still plenty of Greater White-fronted Geese - especially at the east reservoir tonight, but there hasn't been much for Snow Geese yet. Although most of the ice was out at Silver Lake, the ice was still covering at least 80% of the reservoirs - but probably not for long. -- Bob Ekblad Olmsted County in SE Minnesota http://home.rconnect.com/~ekblad/
