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[JimmWilkerson@xxxxxx]

I had been green with envy since some of you got snow!  Here in Hixson, we 
finally got a small dusting on our deck at dusk.

I went back up to Hiwassee Refuge this morning.  At 12:15 Eastern, from the 
gazebo, I saw the female Whooping Crane that has been present since November. 
She was in the middle of the bush hogged corn field toward the rangers 
residence. By 2 PM, with near frozen fingers and toes, I had given up on seeing 
the 
two juveniles that were present last Sunday afternoon.  On the way out, I 
turned 
right onto Blythe Ferry Lane.  A quarter mile down the road, where all the 
good sparrows were seen in previous years, I happened to glance right and was 
able to again pick up the same female I had seen earlier from inside the 
refuge. 
 As mentioned earlier, on the right side of the road, there is a silo in the 
middle of another corn patch and she and about a thousand or more Sandhill 
Cranes were foraging for the last remaining corn kernels.

It's sad to think, these guy's will all be gone in a couple weeks  :(    When 
I got back home, all my feeders are empty.  Wonder what I missed?  It sure 
wasn't the diet rootbeer!!!!  I got tanked up on fish and chips and A&W.

Jimmy Wilkerson
Hixson/Chattanooga, TN.


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