Date: 4/10/25 4:47 am From: Eugenia Cooke <euge24241...> Subject: Re: [VTBIRD] Trumpeter Swans in Pittsford?
Where in Pittsford? Pomainville WMA? Would love to spot them. We saw one
about 10 years ago near Brandon.
On Thu, Apr 10, 2025, 7:07 AM Ted Levin <tedlevin1966...> wrote:
> Trumpeter swans were reintroduced into western Ohio along the shoreline of
> Lake Erie. They're nesting in Magee Marsh and the adjacent national
> wildlife refuge between Oberlin and Toledo. Perhaps, like sandhill cranes,
> they're expanding their range eastward into historic breeding territory.
> Time will tell.
>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 4:08 AM Richard Littauer <
> <richard.littauer...>
> wrote:
>
> > Both of these swans occur in Vermont, rarely. The eBird maps show that
> they
> > come here: https://ebird.org/species/truswa/US-VT and
> > https://ebird.org/species/tunswa/US-VT.
> >
> > And there have been two Trumpeter Swans seen in the area recently. You're
> > lucky to have seen them, too! Good ID.
> >
> >
> https://ebird.org/map/truswa?neg=true&<env.minX...>&<env.minY...>&<env.maxX...>&<env.maxY...>&zh=true&gp=false&ev=Z&excludeExX=false&excludeExAll=false&mr=1-12&bmo=1&emo=12&yr=all&byr=1900&eyr=2025 > >
> > Best,
> > Richard
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM Marguerite Heckscher <
> > <00000e59ff4cc836-dmarc-request...> wrote:
> >
> > > Yesterday afternoon, I saw two very large, straight-necked swans
> gliding
> > > on a body of water in a valley that often turns into a temporary lake
> in
> > > Pittsford. I got a good look at them through binoculars and, having
> seen
> > > many tundra swans in my lifetime, I think they must have been
> trumpeters
> > > because they were definitely bigger than tundras. Is that possible? Has
> > > anyone in this community ever seen trumpeter swans in VT? The map for
> > them
> > > on Cornell Lab of Ornithology site does not include VT.
> > >
> > > Marguerite Lenius (a novice birder who is new to VT)
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
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> > richard.social
> >
>
