Last night, much of the ice on Pig’s Eye Lake disappeared. This morning, the lake was teeming with birdlife. In addition to the usual resident eagles, great blue herons, egrets and cormorants, I saw about 100 bald eagles (almost all immature), hundreds of gulls (mostly ring- billed?), hundreds of common mergansers and scaup, and smaller numbers of red-breasted mergansers, goldeneye, bufflehead, shoveler, and ring-necked ducks. Best viewing is from a section of Point Douglas Road which runs alongside Hwy 61, just south of Lower Afton Rd. To get there, take Hwy 61 south from I-94, or north from I-494, turn at Lower Afton, then right on Point Douglas. You can see some of the action from Hwy 61, but I don’t recommend stopping there.
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