Re: [SBB] Old Record of Sandhill Crane

["Mike Feighner" <[[email protected]]>]

Kathy:

My own record for the Gilroy Sandhill Crane is for Thursday, 3 February
2000.  Your record is a couple days before that date.  The area was a
construction site for new homes.

<<South Bay Birders:

Upon hearing of others' success in refinding the Sandhill Crane in Gilroy
earlier in the day, I headed out to Gilroy to take my chance on this bird.
Weather was not the greatest, but that did not seem to impair the success.
I had started searching around the construction site at Fitzgerald and Santa
Teresa where others had their success earlier in the day.  ...no such luck.
Then I drove south on Santa Teresa just past the the housing development and
parked along the side the road and scanned the stubble field to the east.
The Sandhill Crane was foraging within 100 feet of the road.  This was at
about 3:30 PM.
Its feet were so thickly packed in mud that it seemed to slow down the
crane's movement.  I agree with Mike Mammoser that this is an adult of the
"Lesser Subspecies".  The crane did have the familiar red facial patch and
was generally gray.

Over the years I have birded in Santa Clara County this is the first one I
am aware of that is actually chaseable.  Others have been fly-overs over
Highway 237 in Milpitas or on the the Hamilton Range.>>

--
Mike Feighner, Livermore, CA, Alameda County
 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: [[email protected]] 
>[mailto:[[email protected]]] On Behalf Of 
>Kathryn Parker
>Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 7:34 PM
>To: [[email protected]]
>Subject: [SBB] Old Record of Sandhill Crane
>
>Does anyone remember when the Sandhill Crane was seen a few 
>years ago down near Gilroy or San Martin? It was west of 101 
>in a big field. If I remember right, it was an immature crane.
>
>Kathy Parker
>
>
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