Thanks to Bill Whan's and Ryan Steiner's posts, I was inspired to visit Ottawa NWR today.  About noon I had several hundred tundra swans, a few probable trumpeters, and a couple of mutes; several hundred Canada geese, 50+ snows (roughly half-and-half white and blue), and one each ROSS'S GOOSE and CACKLING GOOSE.  The Ross's was hanging with Canadas, not the snows, and left with a small group of the former.  Also lots of mallards, about 30 pintails, a few common mergansers and a few black ducks.  And Six juvie bald eagles on the trees across the estuary.  A harrier in a tree along the visitor center driveway. No white-fronted geese seen, though.

  Ross's and cackling reports will go to OBRC soon.

  Craig Caldwell
  Westlake

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