<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Keep in mind that you’ll have to schedule your visit to Reifel.<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 9, 2023, at 6:39 PM, Zora Monster <zoramon@mac.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">The sandhill crane festival is timed to coincide with the arrival of the cranes. I suggest going the week after, though you won’t have access to private lands where the cranes may be feeding.<div><br></div><div>IMHO I would skip that and head across the border to Reifel, where they are found year round and are a bit habituated to people. You’ll have to drive around the Othello area to find the cranes, similar to driving around the Skagit for snow geese, and finding them will be hit and miss.<br><div><br></div><div>Zora Dermer </div><div>Seattle<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 9, 2023, at 5:53 PM, Wilson Cady <gorgebirds@juno.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div> </div>
<div> There are now over 500 Sandhill Cranes in the Vancouver Lake lowlands in Clark County and others on the nearby Ridgefield NWR and in the Woodland bottoms.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">they can usually be seen at reifel, just across the border, even in winter... i've photographed several in mid-february, and sometimes find it difficult to shoot with my normal big-ass lens because they are unperturbed by the local bipeds...
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<div>00 caren<br><a href="http://ParkGallery.org" target="_blank">ParkGallery.org</a><br>george davis creek, north fork</div>
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<div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 4:29 PM Diane Doles <<a href="mailto:ddoles3@gmail.com">ddoles3@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; padding-left: 1ex;">Forgot to sign off. I’m Diane Doles.<br> <br> Sent from my iPad<br> <br> > On Jan 9, 2023, at 4:25 PM, Diane Doles <<a href="mailto:ddoles3@gmail.com" target="_blank">ddoles3@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > <br> > I’d like to go to Othello to see the Sandhill Cranes, but would like to avoid the busy weekend of the Crane Festival in March.<br> > Does anyone know whether the Cranes are around Othello now? Or if not, when they’re likely to be there?<br> > I’d appreciate any information. Thanks.<br> > <br> > Sent from my iPad<br> _______________________________________________<br> Tweeters mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Tweeters@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">Tweeters@u.washington.edu</a><br> <a href="http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters</a></blockquote>
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