Beth Jukuri mentioned that she had been off her routine of getting out each day, then a friend reminded her of the cool things to see outside, so she got back outdoors and said it felt wonderful! In Beth’s defense for being “off her routine”, the weather has been a bit all over the place lately with rain, snow, rain again, snow again, etc., etc….you get the picture. Anyway, Beth did find some cool things on her excursion...her road beginning to dry up after the flooding last week, bird tracks on the side of the road, possibly turkeys, a dead tree that the woodpeckers have been pecking away at and a few Sandhill Cranes in the field alongside her. Beth’s friend was right, there is always something cool to see outside!

The video Beth recorded shows those Sandhill Cranes strutting around, but surprisingly not making their prehistoric-like sounds that they normally do. Listen close though, you can hear some other birds, I’m not sure what they are, but I love the sounds! Maybe a red-winged blackbird?

Those birds are so cool...there used to be a field
I'd sneak up on, and there were tons of them in
there....the sounds of them talking to each other
is so phenomenal. Then they built a house on it.
Gah.

I knew these were Beth's pictures before reading Mary's notes! Thanks Beth!

You are right Mary, those are red-winged blackbirds calling!

Cranes…so dignified and royal!

Very cool pictures.

Jbuck beat me to it. They are definitely red
wings.

Couldn’t be Red Wings…there done for the season.

LOL, Alex... 2 thumbs up!!



Great pics & video!

Hey, hey, NMU's own Jake Witt was selected by the Colts in the NFL draft today! Congrats Jake!!

(to be fair, Jake was a Husky in his freshman year)