Today I visited the playa off of Owl Road in Hockley County, near where my
daughter rides. The playa was frozen solid, but that didn't stop what was by
my rough count some 1550 Sandhill Cranes standing there, looking like ice
skaters crowding a rink. Curiously all the cranes were on the ice—not one of
them in the fields surrounding it, where I've seen them feeding before.
Bill Wenthe