From: BarbaraSubject: Flight of the Whooping Crane
Date: January 22, 2009 6:11:48 PM PST
To: Linda
Today I got up at 4:00 a.m. and drove to Dunnellon (86 miles away) to see seven Whooping Cranes being led by Ultra lights to their wintering grounds. They have 1 more leg of 26 miles to go and the Whoopers will be (finally) at their wintering grounds. The migration took unusually long (3 months). The team split the 14 birds up into two groups. One group is wintering in St. Marks and the other at Chassahowitzka. It was 19 degrees Fahrenheit ... but spectacular. Larry had an appointment and could not go with me so I had to take the pictures. I wore my black BB underwear.
From: Barbara
