Around 9 am today, I was at the Sand Point section of Frontenac State Park, taking pictures of 10 buffleheads diving in the bay and 2 sandhill cranes feeding in the nearby marshgrasses. I was thrilled to hear the sound of migrating tundra swans. The first group consisted of about 200 swans flying in a V high above the Wisconsin bluffs. During the next hour, I saw another 9 groups of 100 - 300 swans each, mostly flying along the Minnesota side of Lake Pepin. To get a better vantage point, I drove to the high prairie in the main section of the state park, and during the following hour, got nice views of another 10 groups of 30 - 50 swans each. Most of them were heading in a north or northwesterly direction.
John Zakelj St. Paul, MN ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
