My housemates have told me that there are sandhill cranes right around our house – that there is a pair with a chick that keeps showing up in our yard! I was sure they were messing with me, but today I saw two cranes along Sand Point Road, not far from the house! I wasn’t sure if I saw a chick or not – I was looking, and I thought I saw something smaller moving behind them in the trees, but I couldn’t tell. Still, that was amazing! I never saw them so close before – just a glimpse, way off in the distance, a couple of times when I was in Idaho and Wyoming. I was on the way to work so didn’t have time to do anything except try to take a picture out the window – and it did not turn out at all. Hopefully there will be another chance!
That wasn’t the only wildlife I saw on my drive. I wasn’t much further along when I saw something moving by the side of the road – dark brown. I was expecting a woodchuck, but I got a glimpse as I drove by – and it was a beaver! Now, there are lots of places I would expect to see beavers around here, but this was just in the ditch, without much water around except for Lake Superior. Go figure!
Bill later told me that he saw a mother beaver carrying a kit in her mouth and trying to herd several more, by the road near Munising Falls. Maybe she was moving them to or from that creek, or just to a new location along it.
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