At 3pm today the Sandhill Crane was ion the same location as Jack mentioned earlier, but it was out of the depression and in full view.
Map<https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=214701171166090597430.0004d2bb4b0bd6356e84a&msa=0&ll=40.082872,-105.087133&spn=0.001135,0.002642> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:53 AM, jharlan <[email protected]> wrote: > The Sandhill Crane was still there today (Mon) at 1030 AM. > The bird was difficult to see because it was mostly below the horizon > i.e., only its head and neck were > showing and there is lots of corn stubble of about the same height and > width as the crane's neck. > After I found it with binoculars, I did scope it. Very nice in the > morning sunlight. > It was in the vicinity of a distant oil or gas well head. > cheers > jack harlan > E. Boulder County > > > On Sunday, January 6, 2013 6:58:16 PM UTC-7, Dale wrote: >> >> My husband, Jamie, and I were on our Wintering Raptor Survey route ( >> East County ) this morning and saw a large adult Sandhill Crane standing >> alone in a field, about 500 yards from the road we were on ( 115th ) around >> 11:30 am. The location of the bird was on 115th street approximately .5 >> miles south of the intersection with CO 52. The field was a harvested corn >> field to the west of 115th. >> Here's a link to the picture I took...sorry it's blurry, but hey...it was >> a good ways out there. >> >> https://plus.google.com/**photos/114488311627927726979/** >> albums/5830517343916046193<https://plus.google.com/photos/114488311627927726979/albums/5830517343916046193> >> >> Dale Ball, Boulder, Colorado >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Colorado Birds" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/cobirds/-/ORlKF90xorwJ. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Todd Deininger Longmont, CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
