Hello and thanks for the input on the variety of neck tags used for 
different speicies of swans. The one I previously reported was an obvious 
Trumpeter Swan. As mentioned before, it had a green neck tag with yellow 
letters M70. It was in thick flooded over corn stubble/marsh grass 
bordering Pickerel Creek WA in Sandusky County. I couldn't get a good look 
at the bill to inspect for the often yellow mark and straigher non-V shape 
at the base of the bill, and misinterpreted it as a Tundra Swan; I've been 
seeing hundreds of hundreds of Tundras during the past few weeks of 
birding. These two Trumpeter swans hang out on a private marsh regularly. 
If you head East out of Fremont on Rt. 6, just at Racoon Creek you can 
turn left onto CR (or twshp road) 265. You'll see the two large marshes 
immediately on your left on 265. The Trumpeter swan hangs out in them. I 
saw them today at that location in clear space of water. Through a 40X 
telescope, it was the same one (tag with M70) and yes, it had the 
pronounced "V" demarcation at the base of bill. It's partner was on shore; 
no neckband and "stained" neck and head. A dozen Lesser Scaup, 3 pair of 
Bufflehead, a male Common Merganser male with 3 females, and 5 pairs of 
Blue-wing Teal. I did report the neck band siting as a Trumpeter swan to 
the Patuxent Banding Center. Robert in Fremont

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