Leanna's Message

It’s the 25th of March, 2008 in cold Fort Erie. Well below
our average Spring temperatures. Cousin Leanna and her husband arrived home from sunny Dominican Republic. They then decided to head to the southern U.S.A. and let winter bypass them. Leanna lives near Winnipeg, Manitoba and that is really cold country. Leanna e-mailed me today and here is part of her message. “ In Nebraska on our way home we saw huge flocks of Sand hill cranes. Maybe 1,000 or more in each flock. What a sight! We took a full day to go bird watching as we were so intrigued with them. We very rarely see one and then only from a distance. We also saw large flocks of snow geese and Canada geese. The sky was black with them. The flocks were made up of 50% Snows and 50% Canadas. When they arose in flight into the air you could see this black and white pattern against the blue sky. We see the occasional snow goose here (in Winnipeg) but never in such large flocks.” Note: This is the migration season - flocks heading north.
Leanna ends with, “ The highlight of the trip was seeing mountain Blue bird in Colorado.”