{"id":895412,"date":"2026-10-26T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/895412\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:36:09","slug":"first-significant-number-of-migrating-swans-of-the-season-spotted-at-freezout-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/895412\/","title":{"rendered":"First significant number of migrating swans of the season spotted at Freezout Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MISSOULA, Mont.  \u2014 The first significant number of migrating swans of the season pushed through Freezout Lake Wildlife Management Area over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>More than 1,500 swans pushed through Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The latest weather event pushed the first strong number of swans into the area along with a few light geese,&#8221; bird counters noted.&#8221;The WMA has scattered snow but all ponds remain open and free of ice.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Light geese numbers the same day were 300. <\/p>\n<p>Each fall thousands of geese and wans migrate through Freezout Lake Wildlife Management Area, usually peaking in mid to late November. <\/p>\n<p>Track the migration<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/8d570f17966c41a0b91b9554b19a1dbd#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MISSOULA, Mont. \u2014 The first significant number of migrating swans of the season pushed through Freezout Lake Wildlife&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-895412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}