Monday, February 7, 2011

Sandhill Cranes





youTube: Sandhill Cranes Flight

After Breakfast, rolled down the hill, and after picking up new glasses in Merced, rolled over to Merced Wildlife Refuge....and thereabout, finally saw Sandhill Cranes on the Ground by Bitten Marsh, and fortunately, the Roads thereabout are Trails, and I was able to Indian walk within digiscope faraway range....Corn Stalks were being mowed, and Cranes looked to like the Flattened Stalks....while making digi clips, I saw Hundreds and Hundreds of Cranes take off and head my way from the middle of the Refuge, where Cranes usually are, and hidden from Road views, though easy to hear!...I have clip of Cranes flying overhead, and will try to put it up on youTube with link here....clip up is with the digi....sunny blueblue warm, a little hazy too at the Refuge....back late, and a long day....reports and more pics for sometime....Refuge is on Sandy Mush Road, which I've been calling Sandy Marsh...Foothills have some curious Road and Town names!

"Have you been to the Refuge on Sandy Mush Road?"

"You mean the swamp"?

mush: a soft, wet, pulpy mass : she trudged through the mush of fallen leaves.

a new word for blog use for certain!!


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