Whooping Cranes migrating south
Last Week, six wild whoopers, one of them a juvenile, were spotted in a field northwest of Cheviot Lake, SK with hundreds of Sandhill Cranes and some Snow Geese. Our friend and supporter Val Mann from Saskatchewan sent us a couple of photos and her observation. Again, we thank Val for her fantastic photos of the wild whoopers.
“Kim and I were out on the grid roads in the central part of Saskatchewan yesterday looking for whooping cranes. We had seen a report describing six whooping cranes in a farmer’s field earlier this week and wanted to see if they were still there. About noonish, we saw three of the cranes, still in the area. They were in the field with a number of sandhill cranes, over a mile from the road. The photos show the whooping cranes very far off in the distance – even for a powerful telephoto lens.”
Whoopers from Wood Buffalo National Park heading for Aransas NWR
Whoopers take flight
“About 45 minutes later, a very large flock of snow geese took to flight from a nearby slough. As the snow geese approached the area with the cranes, the cranes stopped feeding and began to look skyward. Shortly thereafter, the cranes took flight and flew towards a large lake just southeast of the field.”
***** FOTWW’s mission is to help preserve and protect the Aransas/Wood Buffalo
population of wild whooping cranes and their habitat. *****
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