On Saturday morning, I helped with a birding group at the Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge and we were pretty impressed. We found well over 100 BALD EAGLES ( we counted 68 sitting on the ice near the island on Rice Lake). There were several CACKLING GEESE mixed in with the hundreds of Canada Geese and the 200 to 300 TUNDRA SWANS. We also found an early HERMIT THRUSH. Over the weekend we found 63 species of birds. A few of the others: 2 COMMON LOONS, one SNOW GOOSE, YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERS, BLACK-BILLED MAGPIES and GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS. Warren Nelson