Last week as I was browsing for photoblogs I ran across this one. The photography was pretty good so I started paging back through the archives looking at older posts until I came to the one linked to. Her story of the snow goose was pretty cool.
Yesterday morning as we rode the trail north of Millersburg to Holmesville we noticed a swan in a flooded field west of the trail. There appeared to be something wrong with its right wind…and it had a collar similar to the snow goose had in the Durham Township blog post. I took several photographs of it and, sure enough, I could read the R45 designation in black on the yellow collar. I followed the other blogger’s link to http://www.reportband.gov and filled out the online form. While there is no guarantee that they will have information on this particular bird, I’m hoping to get a certificate in few weeks indicating where this bird was collared…stay tuned.
