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Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7 by LASTWOODSMAN. Viewed 363 times.
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| LASTWOODSMAN | 03-May-17 16:16 | | I woke up early this AM, just itching to get at that "practise" prop, but ran "Trapper" first to the seasonal wetlands, fields, bushes, and forests near the railroad tracks and rail spur. There must have been about 20 species of songbirds all singing their hearts out, echoing over each other, like a clamour, through the woods - when all of a sudden, I heard a bugleing, rattling croak, like those flying monkeys in "The Wizard of Oz" movie, and looked up to see 2 brown Sandhill Cranes soaring by pretty low, and not flapping their outstretched 6'8" wings, heading SW to the marshes at Point Pelee Nat'l Park or Hillman Marsh or Big Creek Mash. |
| rgood | 03-May-17 19:47 | | Wonderful shot LW - Real flying there! |
| biplane guy | 03-May-17 20:27 | | I'd frame and hang that shot. |
| John M Oshust | 03-May-17 21:01 | | Are cranes edible? How about their eggs? |
| LASTWOODSMAN | 03-May-17 21:26 | | Actually, they are extremely protected now, especially the almost extinct, rare, and barely recovering white "Whooping Crane" - they were shot out of their Rookeries almost to extinction from unregulated hunting and loss of habitat - 1941 only 21 wild and 2 captive birds, 2003 = 306 birds, 2015 = 442 wild plus 161 captive birds. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | 03-May-17 21:39 | | Way up in Northern Ontario near Timmins, I saw a spectacular migrating flight of these in 3 flocks totaling 350 birds with 150 birds in one flock - they were spiraling up, with wings flat out, in large "kettles" on rising thermals, and then soaring off the top down to the base of the next rising thermal. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | 03-May-17 21:52 | | AND, they were all giving their long hollow bugling calls... |
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