apologies: It seems I tapped an invalid address when trying to send a timely update from my cell-phone around the noon hour. Thanks: to Tony Lau for HIS timely update this morning. The bird was at precisely the new location he mentioned, the farm on the NW corner of CR 8 and 345th St. When we first checked the woodlot, the stork was nowhere to be seen, so we drove a large rectangle around the area, searching. When we returned to the spot, the bird had emerged on the north side of the woodlot tree-line, to feed at the edge of the field, where two women pointed it out. Our thanks to them, also. When the bird spread its wings and flew, low, back into the woodlot, one of them managed to spot it with her scope. The view was quite obscured,, as it was perched far in, mid-canopy, in the shade. Several of us struggled to get views then, detecting different parts when the bird moved. Eventually it seemed to desert its perch and fly out toward the SW, so Rob headed around the corner to the opposite side of the woodlot, where he re-located it. Others followed, and the bird offered good views. Then some crows began to harass it, so that it rose up in flight, giving a truly spectacular look and an impressive display of grace in flight. Evading the crows, it rose in expanding circles above the field, the trees, and us admirers. Eventually it dropped low, appearing to re-enter the woodlot on the north side. I had thought the Wood Stork to be rather homely, or at least ungainly, but it no longer seems so. The striking black wing-tips against white plumage seemed elegant, and its flight rivaled the grace of the pelican's. It now seems more appropriate that it shares a lovely feature with Snowy Egrets-- its "golden slippers." Linda (and Rob) Whyte
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