Working from home due to back muscle spasms, as I was stepping in my
car to go to the pharmacy, I heard the unmistakeable bugling of
cranes. This was about 11:45 a.m. The pain forgotten, I rushed to
get my binoculars and ran across the road for a better view.
A large kettle of Sandhill Cranes appeared to be ascending not far to
the west from where I live. There is a stormwater pond in that area.
They may have been disturbed by a Red-tailed Hawk, as one was seen
soaring near them.
The flock re-grouped, circled, broke apart and re-formed a number of
times as they rose higher and moved eastwards. I was able to finally
get an accurate count when they consolidated in a v-shaped group,
turned around, and started to move westwards. Eighty-four!
I live just east of the East Humber River and Pine Valley Rd., north
of Rutherford Rd.
Alfred Adamo ('Your Man in Vaughan")
Woodbridge
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