Hi Norm:

No need for a write-up ... Sandhill Crane was taken off of the MD review 
list quite a few years ago.

Thanks for think of this, however.

Phil


At 13:25 05/08/2005, Norm Saunders wrote:
>This morning at about 10 am, as we were driving north on Rt. 50, a
>SANDHILL CRANE flew across the gap in the trees growing heavily on
>either side of Rt. 50.  We drove another 1/8-mile or so to an
>opening in the tree line where we could scan the fields in the
>direction the bird had flown but were unable to relocate it.
>
>We were a half mile or so north of the Choptank River Bridge and the
>bird crossed the road flying from West to East.  This isn't terribly
>far from where a pair of Sandhills were feeding over a week or two
>in a field behind a motel about 5-6 (?) years ago.  I'll write up my
>sighting but I only saw the bird for a singularly short period of
>time.  A photograph would probably be a lot more satisfying to the
>Records Committee.

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