Clearwater County, November 2
At approximately 8:00 AM I witnessed the flight of a mixed flock of tundra and trumpeter swans from Minerva Lake into Upper Rice lake WMA. The only way to pick them out was the vocalization. There were obvious young tundra swans flying with or near several adults and the birds were grouped in clumps of their own species but it was an obvious choice to fly with and intermingled with the other species. They passed over me as I stood on the pass between the two lakes and at the closest they were 20 feet above me. I watched a little with my 7X35 binocs but could not pick out any of them with the yellow lores but the difference in their vocalization was pronounced and remarkable. Has anyone else seen (or I should say heard) these birds in mixed flocks? Jim Fitzpatrick ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
