I finished out yesterday seeing approx 1000 Snow Geese, 300 Tundra Swans & 100 Trumpeter Swans. All were headed SW, in direction of Am Falls Reservoir, as Chuck Trost noted in his post. Also saw a pr of Hooded Mergansers on the Snake River.

This evening, I just saw and heard a group of 28 Trumpeter Swans fly over, as I was filling my feeders for morning. I just had to pause at how beautiful a bird the Trumpeter really is. North America’s largest waterfowl flying with slow & deliberate wing strokes. And unlike the more vocal & chatty Tundra, just occasionally trumpeting. Against a graying sky with snow pellets falling they were, indeed, majestic.

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot