At about 10:00 am the crane was observed in the field at the Mont Cnty Police range across from the NIH. The bird flew to the south and when we arrived at the site described in the post by Leslie, the crane is the far NE corner of the corn field bear the green hunter s blind.

Ed Boyd
Westminster, MD

On Mon Mar 22nd, 2010 9:01 PM EDT Leslie Starr wrote:

>Seen at 5:35 pm in the northeast corner of the cornfield across  River Road 
>from the eastern edge of the Patton Turf Farm
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>After returning this morning from a weekend out of town, we decided to  
>follow up on recent sightings and make our third try for this bird. We arrived  
>in the area around 2:30 and spent two hours looking along the NIH facility  
>boundary and the part of River Road adjacent to the Patton Turf Farm. We 
>took a  break around 4:30 for a brief visit to Hughes Hollow, where we saw 
>nothing  unusual, though the flock of three dozen TREE SWALLOWS was fun to see, 
>and a  very pale SAVANNAH SPARROW has us wondering about an Ipswich. 
>(Probably  not, but would be glad to send photos to anyone interested.)
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>We returned to River Road shortly after 5:30 and watched a RED-SHOULDERED  
>HAWK flying across the field and over the SANDHILL CRANE, which seemed 
>oblivious  to the hawk's calls. The crane was on the north side of the field and 
>pretty far  away, but was seen well with binoculars and scopes, and 
>photographed well enough  for documentation. The thunder grew louder as we watched 
>the bird, but we were  engrossed until I looked east on River Road and saw a 
>wall of rain heading  toward us. We got wet, but it was worth it.
> 
>Leslie Starr & Joe Turner
> (mailto:[log in to unmask]) 
>Baltimore
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