Hello and thanks for the input on the variety of neck tags used for different speicies of swans. The one I previously reported was an obvious Trumpeter Swan. As mentioned before, it had a green neck tag with yellow letters M70. It was in thick flooded over corn stubble/marsh grass bordering Pickerel Creek WA in Sandusky County. I couldn't get a good look at the bill to inspect for the often yellow mark and straigher non-V shape at the base of the bill, and misinterpreted it as a Tundra Swan; I've been seeing hundreds of hundreds of Tundras during the past few weeks of birding. These two Trumpeter swans hang out on a private marsh regularly. If you head East out of Fremont on Rt. 6, just at Racoon Creek you can turn left onto CR (or twshp road) 265. You'll see the two large marshes immediately on your left on 265. The Trumpeter swan hangs out in them. I saw them today at that location in clear space of water. Through a 40X telescope, it was the same one (tag with M70) and yes, it had the pronounced "V" demarcation at the base of bill. It's partner was on shore; no neckband and "stained" neck and head. A dozen Lesser Scaup, 3 pair of Bufflehead, a male Common Merganser male with 3 females, and 5 pairs of Blue-wing Teal. I did report the neck band siting as a Trumpeter swan to the Patuxent Banding Center. Robert in Fremont ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]