The observation that Molly Thompson posed on July 14th of a Sandhill Crane in Normanna Twp, north of Duluth, also brought forth an observation from last year of a breeding pair with young north of where Molly lives.
On July 7th and 25th of 2006, George Kirk reported to Steve Wilson that he had seen a pair with flightless young in North Star Township (T53N R13W). The site is on the Pequaywan Lake Rd. in the SW 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 15. For this year, Steve also reported a pair of Sandhill Cranes at Crest Lake, Lake County, on June 14th acting as if they had young. Crest Lake is a beautiful shallow sedge wetland where Steve has seen Wilson's Phalaropes in the past. It is west of Lake County highway #2 in T57N R11W, and only accessible by logging roads. Also this year on July 19th I drove back to Duluth from Virginia via Zim-Toivola-Meadowlands on county roads Found 9 adult Sandhill Cranes in a recently harvested field on the Toivola Rd. (southeast of Toivola in T54NR19W) and one adult crane at Sax (Co. rd. #28) just off of Co. Rd. #7. Jan Green.
