I led a waterfowl watching field trip to Weaver Bottoms this past Sunday and there were a few hundred Tundra Swans there.
This coming Saturday, November 10th, Whitewater State Park is assisting the Fish & Wildlife Service with a Tundra Swan Field Trip. The bus will leave Winona and head up to Weaver Bottoms and then drive HWY 61 down to Brownsville where it is estimated that thousands of swans will be seen. Their peak migration is typically the second weekend in November and they will stick around well into December. For more information on the Tundra Swan Field Trip, call the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge at 507-494-6229. Sara Grover Interpretive Naturalist Whitewater State Park 19041 Highway 74 Altura, MN 55910 507-932-3007 ext. 226 [email protected] Think Green! Please do not print this e-mail unless absolutely necessary. -----Original Message----- From: Minnesota Birds [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Mork Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 11:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [mou-net] Tundra Swans Reading all the reports of birds north of the Twin Cities made me wonder about activity south. Which brought the tundra swans to mind. Many years ago,I drove to Alma to see what I could. There were swans there, but not thousands. My timing wasn't precise. Anyone go when the big flocks are there? Has it happened this year yet? ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
