On Thanksgiving Day, I thought I would start early and work my way up from Mill Lacs Lake through Aitkin to Grand Rapids for family, football and food. Although I saw lots of common mergansers, common goldeneyes, bald eagles, Bonaparte's gulls, ring-billed gulls and a few northern tree sparrows and snow buntings, I didn't see any loons along the west side of the lake. North of Aitkin I searched 169 and adjoining roads for the afore-reported snowy owl with no success. However, I did see a rough-legged hawk and then was surprised on the east side of the Aitkin WMA along CR 56 to see approximately 1500 tundra swans located mostly in ponds on the north side of the road. There were also several mallards and a northern pintail. Bill Tefft ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html