Greetings from the glaciated northwest!  

I was watching the news this evening when I heard an awful banging on a window.  It was my wife Micki, trying to get my attention.  Well, it turned out that I emerged from the house just in time to see around 100 Sandhill Cranes fly low over our house.  It was, I think, our earliest spring sighting and was the largest flock we have encountered in Paulding County.  They were not to be ignored, either; she could hear them long before they became visible and long afterwards.  So accommodating when one doesn't have one's binoculars handy!

This eclipses our Tuesday sighting of two Turkey Vultures, I think., by a factor of 50 or so!

Bird long and prosper,
Doug & Micki Dunakin
Antwerp, O.

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