Missed the hooded crane but did get to see 19 whooping cranes one visit and 9 the next time. Saw many thousands of sandhill cranes.
I live 10 miles from the 160,000 acre Kentucky Lake, and the 57,000 acre Barkley Lake is within 25 miles of my house. I live 10 miles from 220,000 acres of Water.
I live in an Outdoor Paradise
Missed the hooded crane but did get to see 19 whooping cranes one visit and 9 the next time. Saw many thousands of sandhill cranes.
cool sighting!
This past winter, a friend of mine spotted a snow owl on the ice at Wolf Lake in Hammond...I thought that was pretty cool too.
I see cranes and herons all the time, but I've never seen a hooded crane...they're pretty neat looking.
Roaming the banks of the Kankakee River and anywhere else fish might lurk.
Hooded crane looks like a really interesting bird. I have never seen one in person. Here is a picture of one.
Very rare indeed. But it is also out of its normal range Siberia, South Korea, Japan and China. Must of been a glitch in its GPS.
I saw a documentory on PBS WTIU Bloomington on how the Goose Pond FWA came into being. Seems like over many years, different farmers tried to drain the wetlands and make a go of farming there...with much failure, ...and what a struggle it was to finally convince the owners of the land, locals, and federal government to turn this into a FWA. I guess after they started turning it back into wetlands, the bird migrations thru there have been fabulous. One of these days, I may have to make the trip down there.
HHD
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