Snow and Cranes

7 February 2007

The first snow flurries of the season have just arrived here, must say I’ve been looking forward to it and I hope we get a good covering for a while. The last few days have been superb and the night frosts have been welcome as well – helping kill the bugs and allowing farmers to spread slurry – but it’s driven away the wading type birds from the beck.

I saw this story about some Cranes being killed by storms in Florida, on the National Geographic site. The were being “escorted” – led by microlight – and is quite a blow to the endangered Whooping Crane population, with only 1 out of 18 surviving out of the dubbed “Class of 2006”.

This story reminded me of a French guy Christian Moullec who started a quest to save the lesser white-fronted goose by leading them from Lapland to Holland. What a fantastic idea, now for me, that would be something amazing to get involved with – flying and conservation!