Though I have seen much better, in the 4 hrs I was working in the yard this morning cleaning martin and wood duck housing, I saw 11 flocks of white fronted geese, one flock of snow geese, and two flocks of mixed snow/Ross geese. Personally, I think seeing a Ross goose in a smaller flock of snows as they fly over head (presuming the flock isn't too high and you have viewing optics) is fairly straight forward, especially if the Ross are sandwiched between snow geese for comparison. The largest flock of white geese was only about 35 and the largest flock of white fronted about 140. Still have not seen a tundra swan this spring and puddle duck numbers are way down, so far.
Many small lakes and wetlands are/will be having ice out in the county today/tomorrow. On Foot Lake where I live, it is happening now, surpassing my previous early record by 3 days. Randy Frederickson Willmar, Kandiyohi county ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
