[NatureNS] "Update" on Centre Burlington sandhill cranes

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Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:38:23 -0400
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Great photos. Thanks Patrick.

Are these cranes usually found more north?

Angela in Windsor


When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. 
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----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Kelly <patrick.kelly@dal.ca>
Date: Friday, January 1, 2010 1:17 pm
Subject: [NatureNS] "Update" on Centre Burlington sandhill cranes
To: NatureNS <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>, NS-RBA <NS-RBA@yahoogroups.com>


> Hello everyone:
> 
> I did go out on the 28th (the day after we found out that the cranes  
> 
> were there) and I stopped to check all the fields on the way out to  
> Ross Barkhouse Road with no luck.
> 
> I went down Ross Barkhouse Road around the sharp bed and to the end of 
>  
> the road with no luck either. I had turned the car around and was  
> about the head further north when the pair flew in from the landward  
> 
> side of Highway 215 and landed in the corn field that is behind the  
> farm just south of Ross Backhouse.
> 
> I walked around the "dyked" area of the farm and despite the snow  
> flurries had a god chance to view them. While the view in binoculars  
> 
> was better, I did get some pictures. The first  two are cropped, the  
> 
> last one scaled down to show the entire scene.
> 
> http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/Sandhill1.jpg
> http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/Sandhill2.jpg
> http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/Sandhill3.jpg
> 
> I then stopped in to meet Derek Crosby, (on the "bend" in the  
> Barkhouse Road) who had reported the birds with his feederwatch  
> report. He said that the birds have been off and on since early  
> December, and there are days where he doesn't see them. I haven't had  
> 
> a chance to get back since to see if they are still around.
> 
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