Date: 4/11/25 3:16 am From: Marguerite Heckscher <00000e59ff4cc836-dmarc-request...> Subject: Re: [VTBIRD] Trumpeter Swans in Pittsford?
Hello and thanks for all the responses. Very exciting!
I spotted them in a valley between Rt 3 and a small cul-de-sac named Crown Point North, which is between Corn Hill and Stevens Roads off of Rt 3. The valley floods easily and often and looked like a lake a few days ago. I havent seen them since, but I’ve been away during the day all week.
Someone in this group asked if I was sure they weren’t mute swans. This is the downside of being an inexperienced birder: I didn’t know the telltale signs to look for in the moment. However, the pair I saw were very straight-necked. It’s my understanding that mute swans’ necks appear S-shaped as they glide. The necks on these birds were not S-shaped.
Marguerite
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On Thursday, April 10, 2025, 3:30 PM, Sue Wetmore <000006207b3956ac-dmarc-request...> wrote:
I was there at Pomaimville this morning and did not see them.
Sue Wetmore
Brandon
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> On Apr 10, 2025, at 3:29 PM, Eugenia Cooke <euge24241...> wrote:
>
> 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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>>
