Shrike high in its tree 1105 Wed. No whoopers, darn.-- BarrySent from my
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-------- Original message --------From: "James Crites("jrcrites")"
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 11/9/21 10:18 PM (GMT-06:00) To:
leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [leasbirds] Re: Whooping crane Hi All,Our last
twenty minutes birding at Canyon Lake #6 this evening was exciting. Brad Shine
and myself were unable to find the Northern Shrike in the areas that that it
was previously located, so we walked down the old abandoned railway, in a last
gasp chance at finding the Northern Shrike, and there it was masquerading as a
mockingbird in a dead tree. Once we realized it was our target bird we both
got good photos before a biker flushed the shrike and it flew northwest out to
the field and landed in another, but larger dead tree.Earlier, as we were
birding, hundreds of Sandhill Cranes were flying over, and we joked about
seeing a Whooping Crane. As we were about to leave a huge Sandhill Crane flock
flew over and there was one huge white bird-a Whooping Crane. We were
astonished! We both got photos. I am still unable to post photos to the
listserver so below is my eBird post with
pictures.https://ebird.org/checklist/S97372968Enjoy the chase!Jim CritesSent ;
from my iPadOn Nov 9, 2021, at 6:52 PM, Kassie Moore <kasbang55@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:Dang!! That’s awesome!On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 6:35 PM WILLIAM WENTHE
<wwenthe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What a gift to see a whooping crane! I heard two flocks of sand hill
cranes this evening – I think I hurt my neck jerking it up to look for a big
white bird.Bill
On Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 05:07:09 PM CST, Johnny
Nelson <johnnywillnelson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What a day! Congratulations- I'm stuck teaching tomorrow but
might give the bike trails a go on Thursday if the shrike holds on that long.
Johnny On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 4:39 PM James Crites
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Brad and I got a whooping crane with a
large flock of Sandhills, after we got the northern shrike!
Jim
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-- Kassie