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The fall migration has brought swans, trumpeter and tundra, to grace our skies and landscape in the Skagit Valley. As their breeding grounds freeze over in Alaska, the swans follow traditional migration routes returning to Skagit County’s abundant farm fields and wetlands. The Skagit Valley hosts the largest concentration of trumpeter swans in North America each winter, an awesome sight to behold. Yet these elegant birds were close to extinction in the 1960s. Of the nearly 12,000 swans wintering in the valley, 90 percent are trumpeters with 1...
