Migration

Been seeing a large variety of birds heading back north. Bluebills, redheads ,canvasback, teal, woodies, mallards and mergansers I've seen lately.

Yep, the cranes have been going over a lot lately.

I saw some sandhill cranes in southern IN and huge flocks of snow geese in Central IL, a truly incredible sight when the whole flock takes flight!!!

Saw spoonbills and hooded mergansers today. It's great to see ducks in the spring when they are in full plumage. Seen 2 geese on the nest already.

Buffleheads today.

Had them here yesterday..

I saw two pairs of buffleheads at my grandma's on Sunday. I had planned to replace the wood shavings in my wood duck box, but when I opened it up there was already a few eggs in it, so I left it alone.

We saw a lot of geese and a few ducks today at the farmland conservation club. Awesome day!

Celery Bog here in West Lafayette has been covered in a variety pack of birds. I need to walk down and inventory. I know i have seen shovelers, bufflehead, and blue bills as well as mallards. Early there were swans on as well as some white birds that look like herons.

cool

Been seeing many mallards around the water standing in our field behind the elevator

I have a pond about 1.5 acres behind my house in our housing edition and I've seen a drake bufflehead, pair of blue wing teal, and a pair of redheads so far this spring along with Canadians and mallards.

I also had several Buffleheads on the pond this evening.

Seen quite a few Canadian geese today in the water flooding the field back behind the elevator.

Geese everywhere..
BTW.. I'm the last one to correct anyone but there is no such thing as Canadian gesse.. just Canada gesse. ( lesser and greater).
I'm watching some now.. not a dig here at all just a little info. Fun isn't it!

I went through Muscatatuk on Tuesday and it was loaded with teal. Do they nest there or are they on their way through?

they are headed back