Glad I wasn’t the only ones to see the swans! I watched the whole event, but it wasn’t just the 500 something swans you guys witnessed. I estimate about 5000 maybe 10,000 swans spent the night of the 26th on Mono.

I went out to DeChambeau before sunup on the 27th. The round pond had about 200 on it, and when they flew … the rumble began! Group after group started to get up off various portions of the lake. Each group would form a V, then would disappear. All I could hear all morning was swans flying off the lake.

The old man says we use to get migrations of swans like this. All I can remember is you see them just flying over at unreal altitudes. It was apparent they wouldn’t stay long with the lack of available food for waterfowl in the basin right now. Every bunch I saw were sleeping, resting up for the rest of the migration. Just goes to show how important Mono is for migratory birds.