Peter et al., The softer honking you're hearing at night is likely Tundra Swans. Snow Geese have a sort of yelping honk, while Tundra Swans give a soft honk that sounds a lot like a goose. The swans are moving through in big numbers right now, and they often fly in noisy small flocks at night. I've heard them the last three nights over my house, which is also in south Minneapolis.
Matt Dufort Minneapolis On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 12:53 PM, peter schmidt < peterschmidtphotogra...@yahoo.com> wrote: > At noon, Mpls. Mississippi River Oak Savanna (West River Road and 36Th > Avenue). Very windy, did not see much. > > Eastern Blue Bird, yea! > > Phoebe > Brown Creeper > Common Grackle > Juncos, flocks of them all week. > > Unfortunately a Coopers thinned the Junco flock by one in my yard this > morning. Unfortunately it prefers Juncos to the ever present European House > Sparrows. > > > Has anyone else heard geese late at night coming through the Mississippi > flyway the last 2 nights? Snow geese? We were unable to I.D. them. Softer > sound definitely not the Canadian honkers. > > > Peter Schmidt, South Mpls > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
