Our East and South Landfill Reservoirs in Olmsted County are still nearly all covered with ice as of Wednesday (March 30). Any day they should break up. However, there is open water around the edges. Seen yesterday in these areas (mostly at the South Reservoir) were:
20+ Northern Shoveler 30+ Green-winged Teal 10-15 Blue-winged Teal 20+ Lesser Scaup 18 Ring-necked Ducks 50+ Ring-billed Gulls 1 Herring Gull 12 Hooded Mergansers 4 Common Mergansers 5 American Coot 8 Gadwall 5 American Wigeon 1 Wood Duck Canada Geese Mallards 1 Pied-billed Grebe Overhead and around the edges: 1 Double-crested Cormorant 5 Turkey Vulture many Killdeer Song Sparrows
