an easy cache-n-dash along Greenland Road
Inspired in part by Tom.Dog’s American Wildlife series.
While out geocaching along South Spring Valley road, getting some of the NAA power trail, I heard a peculiar sound I have not heard in a very long time. It sounded something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REYHy8xovZk
After scanning the sky several times while moving from cache to cache, I finally spotted about 20 sandhill cranes. Farther down the road there was a great flock of about 50 sandhill cranes. Then another flock… and another.
Since this seems to be a good spot along their migration route, I placed a cache here to commemorate these magnificent birds.
For more information on sandhill cranes, this wiki article is very comprehensive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandhill_Crane
To see the cranes in person: Go to Kearny, Nebraska in February or March. Be prepared to be amazed! There will easily be half a million cranes, several hundred thousand Canada geese and nearly as many snow geese along the sandbars of the Platt River. Or go to Gainesville, Florida in December or January: same deelio in Paynes Prairie, or in the cow pastures outside of town. Thousands upon thousands of cranes.
Or do Tom.Dog’s NAA series on just the right day in October: you’ll see hundreds of these birds as they fly overhead. And the roads out here are quiet enough to hear them , first!
Cache is a cammoed peanut butter jar.
For others in the zoology series, see GC2VGB6 Xenarthra (adopted by Misery68) and GC4QB55 Miracinonyx (American Cheetah) FTF bragging rights go to JC's Girl
Grus canadensis (Zoology series)
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