Nice pictures, Al. That Irish Moss looks a bit like red susswassertang (or however that's spelled).
Brant is one goose I'd like to see. We have tons and tons of canada geese here, but obviously not a lot of brant in Iowa. I have seen TONS of trumpeter swans the last 4-5 days though. It used to be that you'd only see swans in cemetery ponds or an occasional private pond where the DNR had a pair and maybe a cygnet or two. It seems like the population is building, at least in our flyway. I've seen multiple groups from 3-15 in them. And today I went down to a marsh I thought might be partially open with this warm weather we've been having and it was and there might have been a hundred trumpeters there. I don't have the gumption to break out my ancient DSLR and try to go take a good picture, though.