Re: [gardeners] Monday in the garden
Billie (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:23:28 -0500
>We were out in the garden doing a little weeding, cleaning out the
>greenhouse, etc. when a flight of what I believe were Sandhill Cranes
>went over. They were about 2,000 or 3,000 feet up when I finally saw
>them but what attracted my attention was a loud "grok" sort of sound
>that we heard twice. When finally located it was a flock of about 50
>birds heading north by northwest from us, probably toward west Texas.
>I'm reasonably certain it was cranes because I've never seen herons
>flying in large groups at altitude before. A quick Google search lead me
>to photos of Sandhill's in migratory flight and that's what this flight
>looked like.
That sounds fabulous! We almost had an accident one time when my
husband spotted a flock of wild turkeys in the mountains of NC - come
to think of it that happened another time too, but at the coast when
we spotted a bunch of snowy egrets nesting in a weeping willow by an
inlet.
We love spotting unusual birds (at least ununusual to us!)...
billie
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billie hinton
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