[TN-Bird] Re: Hiwassee Area Saturday Report
- From: "Bates E." <wgpu239@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: dro_1945@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:50:52 -0500
Charles,
Thanks again for your stalwart efforts at keeping us updated, and
personally, thanks for reminding me of the things we see around us that
give evidence of creative purpose. These cranes, and the difficult
circumstances they survive in, have particular resonance with me as I get
older and much less cold tolerant. Their survival is a marvel to me, and
it makes me "hit the pillow" each night with a word of thanks on my lips
for a warm house, and a prayer to the Lord for those who will sleep on the
streets that night.
Again, *thank you* for filling us in each day on things going on at
Hiwassee, even as "Our Hoodie" seems to have moved on.
Bates Estabrooks
Anderson County
SDG
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Charles Murray <dro_1945@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I spent only a brief time at the Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge and the Cherokee
> Removal Memorial Park today due to the brutal wind chill and other
> obligations. In the early morning, I saw only a few hundred sandhill cranes
> on the mudbars near Hiwassee Island and about 75 in a field on Shadden Road
> near McInturff Cemetery. About 4:30 p.m. I thought of the survival skills
> that God built into the sandhills as I observed about 200 crowded near the
> north side of the slough at the HWR viewing area. By clustering there, they
> were somewhat shielded from the 20 - 30 mph north winds by the low bank of
> the slough behind them. At least 15 hearty souls ventured into the HWR for
> some portion of the day, raising the total visits to HWR since December 14
> to at least 4235, not including the visits during the Tennessee Sandhill
> Crane Festival.
>
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