Just to add to before, while going through the very bad pictures taken
today over at Killdeer, I spotted a pair of immature Mute Swans in
amongst the Trumpeters.


Steve J. wrote:
> Went over to Killdeer this morning and saw plenty of waterfowl in the
> small patches of water to make the trip pleasurable. :-)
>
> There were of course more Canada Geese than I care to count.  Easily a
> thousand scattered in the reserve.  Most were in pond 1.
> Also at pond #1 were 30 Redheads, 20 Pintail, 6-10 Ringnecks, about 30
> Mallards, and 20 Trumpeter Swans. There were more that were beyond the
> reach of my camera, but that is what I could see.
> At the pond near the maintenance building were more pintails and geese.
>
>
> Eagles were all over killdeer I counted 10 juvi and no adults.  Also saw
> plenty of red tailed hawks.  No owls but plenty of...remains to think
> that there were owls that overwintered there.
>
> Big Island was slow.  Only 50 ring billed Gulls were present and a lone
> red tailed hawk was about it.
>
> Pretty cool trip.
>
> Later
>
> Steve Jones
> (aka sjlarue)
>
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