For a while they could be heard, as if they were passing over from the south above the heavy clouds of this early afternoon. Suddenly a V of them emerged, crossing over the St. Louis Bay toward the north, and they were apparently twenty as, for a change, I bothered to count them. In a little while I headed to the Duluth side of the point to see what was out there and here may have been the source of the ongoing wow-wow voices we had been hearing; tens or dozens of tundras all lined up along the water, adults with immatures. Laura Coble on a later phone call assured me that these same same swans in much the same numbers had been seen in or near Goodhue and Dakota Counties in the previous hours, I am being inexact.
Along with the swans on the Duluth side were many mallards and a pair of shovelers. Common goldeneye drakes and females were still visible over in the puddles appearing in the ice that remains on the St. Louis Bay (Wisconsin) side of the point. *Tanya Beyer Barcikowski* ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
