Is having swans around a bad thing?

[CC Rocks]

I hunt in central mn and are contantly having to deal with swans. I know there are at least one pair of nesting trumpeters in my area. I had to boot them out of my dekes a couple times on Saturday. Are they looked upon as good or bad for hunting? I always hunt on water.

[Cheetah]

I guess I'd think of them as a good thing unless ducks were obviously avoiding your spread when the swans are nearby vs when they aren't.

[dan z]

I hunt in central mn and are contantly having to deal with swans. I know there are at least one pair of nesting trumpeters in my area. I had to boot them out of my dekes a couple times on Saturday. Are they looked upon as good or bad for hunting? I always hunt on water.

anything that adds motion in your decoys is a good thing. let em do whatever they want. in fact I had a mallard in the decoys saturday and evertime I made a noise like a swan she quacked

[coombia21]

every time i see swans flying into the decoys there is always ducks following not to far behind

[BlueLundFishrman]

i'd love to see a swan fly into my decoys.

[Quackaddict9]

Swans do not do me good when hunting, there is a ton of them at the flooded rice fields and ducks and geese are confidence in them and feel safe and land with them, so I always try to get them off.

[broken_line]

2 pelicans in my spread helped me shoot my first drake blue bill..

[MN Greenheads]

Geese and swans don't care for each other. No lie, look it up.