Our camera tends to blur things a little on 'zoom' but we've taken several pix of these magnificent birds each day. I snapped this one yesterday.....
Posted on 02/16/2014 10:44:36 AM PST by patriot08
I thought they were spread by the rising water and the floating debris pushed by a flooded river.
Sandhill Cranes are everywhere around here.
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Big, beautiful birds, too. They were almost wiped out by
idiot hunters, too- weren’t they?
I guess they slaughtered the cranes just for the fun of it.
You can’t eat one.
I know a lot of birds were slaughtered for their feathers for idiot women’s fashions.
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Our camera tends to blur things a little on 'zoom' but we've taken several pix of these magnificent birds each day. I snapped this one yesterday.....
I’ve always lived here in their summer grounds so they seem fairly common to me. I like to listen to them in the mornings. Their trumpeting sounds kind of prehistoric echoing through the fog.
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Aren’t the Ocelots gorgeous?
To think that they were slaughtered by the thousands for their fur!
They are building ‘animal passages’ (large tunnels under the roads) in the small corner of Texas where these precious little creatures are still hanging on.
Many of them have been killed by cars.
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Toads are still horney here.
cool..if you think of it, let us know.
We’ve been tickled to death to have a flock of 7 Whoopers spending time on our farm in southern Middle TN the past week.
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Wonderful! Keep a watch on them.
Good you notified the proper authorities. :)
Super cool video, but the author I’m talking about was American. I’m guessing the book was written in the 60’s or 70’s because I read it in the early 80’s as a kid and it was a fairly old book then.
Lucky you.
I have to drive to their refuge and pay a professional whooper watcher to take me out on his boat to observe them.
Yes. I’ve done that tummy rubbing thing too. I don’t remember what I was doing to the poor thing when it spit blood.
Gorgeous indeed. Glad people came to their senses about preserving them.
The media story here in Texas has been that they arrived in Mobil Alabama by freighter from South America some time in the 50s and have been spreading out from there.
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I tired going by the instructions in one of the FR HTML instruction sites: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/938739/posts
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There’s a lot of great and fascinating information on Texas’ endangered species and what we can all do to help.
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but I just couldn’t make it work most of the time.
I am in Texas and I never heard that story.
They are destroying so much of our wildlife.
Have they spread all over Texas by now or what? It seems the last I read, they hadn't reached central Texas yet.
I guess you all heard about the young boy that was killed by fire ants during football practice here fairly recently:
There must be something they can do to eradicate these things!
The immediately put their house up for sale and moved to Utah.
There are things you can put on your yard but they aren't going to be eradicated on a large scale.
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