West Rush Lake Pelican and Tick Migration!

After a long, hard day Sunday, I dragged home just to have the cell phone ringing.  I was bone tired, but new ads are out and my clients deserve my best.  It was a friend who I had sold a lakehome to a couple of years ago, someone who I so appreciate having come into my life through this real estate profession!  He and his wife have been a gift well after the papers have been signed, as have many of my former clients, now friends.  Anyway, he was out on the pontoon (already), and in a northern bay on West Rush Lake.  The white pelicans were in the bay by the hundreds!  I scooped up the kids and husband, re-energized, grabbed the camera and sped up in the truck.  We drove to the farthest point in Frandsen County Park (just west of Rush City), and could see the flocks, just out of camera range.  They are incredible when soaring in, huge white and black masses...my favorite to see migrating through the area.  Usually there are hundreds in front of my house, not one yet as of today, they are sticking close to the smaller inlets at the north end.  Joining the mergansers, buffleheads, mallards and commorants, East and West Rush Lake see an enormous diversity of wildlife passing through in spring and fall.  After attemtping to get a photo (birthday next month..can anyone say telephoto!)..we straggled reluctantly home, and spent the evening picking off the ticks which had hitched a ride...Gotta love it...time for the repellant and sunscreen, spring has sprung in Minnesota!