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--Apple-Mail-3--661111590 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> > Subject: [ValleyNature] sandhill cranes heading northward in > central B.C. > > Hi, gang. I am in Burns Lake in central B.C. for another week or > so before a few days in Vancouver and then back to N.S. for the > Migration Count on May 10. It is still early spring up here, with > ice on the lakes and snow still in the ditches and not many migrant > birds yet except for ring-billed gulls and a few Canada geese and > ducks. But the highlight below is a definite sign of things to > come. This was a great moment for me, with my poor hearing and > vision. > > In mid-afternoon Nick (Pat's son who is a pilot and has a flying > business here) came inside the house to report he had just been > hearing SANDHILL CRANES calling their turkey-like gobbles. So I > went outside a few minutes later, heard a few cranes immediately, > and then they grew in number and closeness. I scanned the sky and > was just in time to see, high in the sky and heading northward, in > the direction of the town of Burns Lake and parts further north, a > broad shallow vee of about 200 of the "turkeys" (Saskatchewan > farmers' lingo), including several sub-shallow-vees. I kept > hearing them for a few minutes past when they flew over and by, > then the calls stopped. Based on the timing of Nick's first > hearing them, I will bet that at least twice as many cranes flew > over as the 200 I saw. > > Cheers from Jim in Burns Lake, central B.C. > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/ > nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca --Apple-Mail-3--661111590 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Nature BNS <<a = href=3D"mailto:nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a>></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[ValleyNature] sandhill cranes = heading northward in central B.C.</b></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> Hi, gang. I am in = Burns Lake in central B.C. for another week or so before a few days in = Vancouver and then back to N.S. for the Migration Count on May 10. = It is still early spring up here, with ice on the lakes and snow = still in the ditches and not many migrant birds yet except for = ring-billed gulls and a few Canada geese and ducks. But the = highlight below is a definite sign of things to come. This was a = great moment for me, with my poor hearing and = vision.<div><br></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Arial" = size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial">In mid-afternoon Nick (Pat's son = who is a pilot and has a flying business here) came inside the house to = report he had just been <b>hearing SANDHILL CRANES</b> calling their = turkey-like gobbles. So I went outside a few minutes later, heard = a few cranes immediately, and then they grew in number and = closeness. I scanned the sky and was just in time to see, high in = the sky and heading northward, in the direction of the town of Burns = Lake and parts further north, a broad shallow vee of about <b>200 of the = "turkeys"</b> (Saskatchewan farmers' lingo), including several = sub-shallow-vees. I kept hearing them for a few minutes past when = they flew over and by, then the calls stopped. Based on the timing = of Nick's first hearing them, I will bet that at least twice as many = cranes flew over as the 200 I saw.</font></div></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: = 13.0px Arial"><br></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial">Cheers from Jim = in Burns Lake, central B.C.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = ">_______________________________________________</div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Nature mailing list</div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a = href=3D"mailto:Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">Nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a = href=3D"http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnatu= ralists.ca">http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidon= naturalists.ca</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-3--661111590--
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