Begin forwarded message: > From: Laura Coble <[email protected]> > Date: March 17, 2010 7:00:44 PM CDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Tundra Swans, Dakota and Goodhue Counties > > Yesterday around 4:30 pm, I found 70 Tundra Swans and a mixed flock of > ducks--Canvasback, Common Goldeneye, Scaup (Lesser and possibly Greater) on > Lake Byllesby, viewed from Lakeside Cemetery off hwy 88 (Dakota Cty), a mile > east of Randolph. > > At the boat launch (Goodhue Cty), accessed about 2 miles south of Randolph > and several miles east of hwy 56, there were over 230 Tundra Swans, a small > flock of Ring-necked Ducks and a few Common Mergansers. Much of the lake is > still frozen east of the boat launch. > > At 180th St.,1/2 mi. east of hwy 85 in Dakota Cty, I saw Red-winged > Blackbirds, 1 E. Bluebird, and heard my first Western Chorus Frog. I also saw > 10 Tundra Swans fly over, going south. > > At around 5:20 pm, about midway between New Trier and Hwy 86, (Dakota Cty) I > saw at least 150 Tundra Swans on the right side of the Hwy 85, feeding in a > flooded field, near a bridge over a canal. Just before reaching Hwy 86, I > saw another 30 or so Tundra Swans in a distant flooded field, on the left > side of Hwy 85. These were probably most of the same swans I'd found earlier > on Lake Byllesby. > > Laura Coble
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