March 5, 2012

Moments ago, 11:25 AM, I was outside in the yard next to our farmhouse. I
heard a strange (but somehow familiar) rolling, croaking call overhead, and
looked up to see a single sandhill crane flying directly overhead, a couple
hundred feet above the Flint Ridge upland. My exuberant reaction caused my
wife Jane to open the door and ask what was going on. I told her the news,
and she remarked she thought it might have been something "important." I
replied that it was, as I pointed to the bird receding in the gray, March
sky to the north.

"Yardbird" number 135 for Valhalla Acres Fiber Farm. The 39th yardbird of
2012.

It is alway a treat when we get waterfowl, gulls, herons and such flying
over our place, since we don't have a pond, or really any wetlands other
than vernal pools, springs and seeps. Dillon Reservoir is a couple miles
north of here, as the gull flies.

A crane is way cool!

Bob Evans
Geologist, etc.
Hopewell Township, Muskingum County

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