OT-CHAT: endangered whooping cranes

Totally off topic, but the third crop of juvenile endangered Whooping
Cranes left Necedah Wildlife Refuge this morning on their ultralight
airplane-led flight to their Florida wintering grounds.  Once they reach
Florida, they will be released into the wild, to make the return trip to
Wisconsin and future migrations north and south on their own.

<http://www.operationmigration.org>

What does this have to do with irises? Well, my irises grow directly
under the route the non-endangered Sandhill Cranes use when flying back
and forth between their major staging area at the Hiwassee River
Wildlife Refuge an hour south of me and other wildlife areas along the
Watts Bar Reservoir a few miles north of here.

And some day, I hope to hear wild adult Whooping Cranes calling as they
fly over while I'm out there dusting my irises with lime.....

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Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
East Tennessee Iris Society <http://www.korrnet.org/etis>
American Iris Society web site <http://www.irises.org>
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