Hi Peggy,  Thanks for the update on the trumpeter swans at Dillon wildlife area(licking county section).
I have been monitoring the pair since I found them there in late March, this is the first nesting attempt
in licking county. The female is buried back in the corner out of viewing range. I observed her from the 
wooded hillside at the far back end of the wetland on an occupied nest. Aside from mutes, the other 
2 white swans are "harder"
to find in licking county, and usually only a few are reported in winter each year.  Usually this wetland is 
occupied by nesting mutes, which I actually watched the trumpeters chase a single mute off a few weeks
 ago.

Please report also if you see the common mergansers in that area, Im also trying to confirm first licking \
county nesting for that species, all though they most likely certainly have for years no on has ever seen 
young.

thanks. Matt Mason

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