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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dean nelson" data-source="post: 79642" data-attributes="member: 1305">Not saying birds didn't use the main flyway....in reality I would guess it was something along the line of a 60/40 split between main and west flyway vs the 90/10 split it used to be. It isn't a all or nothing type of deal just percentages of what was the norm. tewaukon had a nice build up of birds no doubt but depending on what population model you look at that flock only accounted for around 20% on the high and as little as 5% on the low side of the whole Midcontinent population. As for ray and Newtown by the time they get there the flyway has busted up almost completely from what it was south of 94. This is an extremely rough layout of the spring migration as it was in the the early 2000's.  When I talk the western group I'm specifically talking about the area around Chamberlain South Dakota up through Goodrich North Dakota. That group of birds has been on a steady rise the last half dozen years and this year was no different. Like trip said they is no such thing as normal with snows so who knows what they will do next. On the map red is the main flyway and orange being secondary flyaways. The blue is major staging areas and the green is the approximate Edge where you'll find the Snows in spring.[ATTACH]4631[/ATTACH]- - - Updated - - -Little closer look at nd. Like said very rough outline of what it used to be.[ATTACH]4632[/ATTACH]</blockquote>