I stopped by the 180th St Marsh (Dakota County? just north of Vermillion) to find it mostly open water. Three of the four main pools are fully clear of ice and the fourth is about 2/3rds clear.
Toward the back of the larger pool, there were a couple dozen Ring-necked ducks, two Redheads, two Hooded mergs, two Common goldeneye, two Killdeer, 100 Canada geese and several hundred Mallards. Redwing blackbirds in the century farmyard to the east and a few Horned larks in the grass. Several muskrats in each pool swimming laps. There was no other standing water along 180th. C'mon spring rain! -rick, mpls Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
