December 2, 2007 - The Journey Welcome to the Nature Notebook. Imagine setting off on a journey of several thousand miles. You put on some extra weight before you go. Then you leave without either map or food, taking only the clothes on your back. You rely on instinct to guide you, a built-in compass and keen survival skills to sustain you on your trip. Could you reach your destination? Every year hundreds of thousands of waterfowl take to the skies and begin such a journey. Lakes and rivers and even ponds and streams become rest stops for these migrating birds. Ducks, geese, swans and other waterbirds stop in north central Pennsylvania to rest and feed before continuing south. Among the typical visitors this time of year are loons, Ruddy Ducks, Buffleheads, mergansers and coots. Some will linger a day, others several weeks. Then it is off on the next leg of their journey. This is PPL's naturalist, Jon Beam, with the Nature Notebook for WVIA.