Photo courtesy of Tracy Brown Photography
Fowl Play SANDHILL CRANES ARE A TRIP WORTH TAKING
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t was dusk and in the distance I saw birds in flight. I couldn’t guess their numbers, but as they came closer, I knew there were many hundreds. The unique trumpet sound of sandhill cranes grew louder as they glided into
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the flooded fields off Interstate 5. I was mesmerized and wondered, what took me so long to see this? Last month, I spent a few hours at the Woodbridge Ecological Reserve with my neighbor, Jane Adams. Adams, former executive director for the California Park and Recreation Society, is a volunteer docent with the sandhill crane tour program operated by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. “I got hooked on these cranes after my first bus tour of Woodbridge,” Adams says. “That was 17 years ago. It was a beautiful sight, seeing thousands
Jane Adams Photo by Aniko Kiezel
