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@Trekkin and Birdin wrote:
How soon before we hear the official word? So we can offer official congratulations?
I think that will be announced at a dinner on February 14. Can’t believe they’d have everyone come all that way just to hear that they lost, if that should be the case.
Sweet! Congrats, Barry and Val!
Lots of new caches in that area. First you can get mad at Cheezehead with his new Mini Meanie Greenie series, then you can find out who murdered HCH in krymdog’s Northwoods Whodunnit series, and then everyone can smile about the whole thing with this new smiley series by scott543.
And don’t forget about the HCH Alphabet Soup series, the Northwoods Cachers series by scott543 in the same area as the new smileys, and the COTM award winning Trapper’s Cabin series by Woody1 and Biotreker.
Great Up Nort caching, a nice mix of old and new.
(And there are a “few” puzzzles there, too.)
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@RickBlick and Chick wrote:
…One thing to keep in mind for Feb. 5th – someone mentioned they saw that the voting ends at 5:30 pm, so make sure we all vote early on the last day.
@gotta run wrote:
Somewhere in this thread I recall reading that voting ended at 5pm tomorrow…I don’t see that in the online rules?
Rick mentioned it in this forum on January 25. He said he’d heard it somewhere.
Don’t take chances. Get your vote in early enough, but if you forget and it’s past 5:30, check in just in case. Too bad they couldn’t cut off voting at 5:30 every night, especially in Pennsylvania…
Nice job on the 2500 finds, Bartrod. Liked where you found “O”.
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Living in sandhill country, we often encounter the birds, and we hear them from our house in town as they set up camp in open areas to our southwest. The sound of a sandhill crane calling is as much a sign of spring to us as the warble of a robin. We enjoy spotting or hearing cranes as we walk the trails in search of ammo cans in the woods; the birds are not rare around here.
A favorite activity of ours that dates back to pre-caching days is to visit the area around Owens Rock in NE Adams County, where the cache GCH3JG is located. In spring and more often in the fall, the surrounding fields and wetlands are filled with cranes as they start or end their migration each year. It is a witness to the conservation efforts to save the sandhills.
We are not against hunting, but it saddens us to see another species set up for a hunt. We own no land, nor do we make a living from the land that is affected by the actions of these birds. If the population is large enough to withstand a hunt, and if that hunt is monitored and regulated, it may provide some relief to farmers who have been affected by the cranes. We do not have problems with ethical hunters who use what they kill and who respect the animals they hunt, but we have no use for “idiots with guns” who pass themselves off as hunters and who shoot at almost anything that moves. It is our hope that if there is to be a crane hunt, this group of people will choose to stay home.
As for the whooping cranes being mistaken for sandhills, it is like in any other hunt: Make sure of your target before you pull the trigger. Some whooping cranes have already fallen victim to “idiots with guns” in Indiana and other states, just because it was something to shoot, not because there was a hunting season going on. Adult whooping cranes are white rather than brown or gray, and they are quite a bit larger than sandhill cranes. Educating one’s self on one’s target is all that is needed.
Here is another link for those of you who want to find out what is going on with the current ultralight-led migration of young whooping cranes:
http://www.operationmigration.org/Field_Journal.html
Weather forced this year’s migration to stand down on many occasions. When the group tried to continue on to Florida recently, the cranes kept turning back. It is a possibility that, like us, the cranes believe this winter can be enjoyed closer to home, with no need to travel all the way to Florida. Consequently, the human-led migration this year is over, and the cranes are being shipped to a wetlands location near to where they currently are in anticipation of a gentle release into the wild. At some point, the birds will decide on their own when they want to return to the White River Marsh, where they fledged.
Nine votes down now.
Still down by about 400, but while I was waiting to log vote #25,000 for the Mayor (got either that or #25,001), the other guy’s vote total just sat while our guy’s was adding about ten.
Bedtime out east?
10:00 Eastern. Kiddos go to bed?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm….
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Welcome to the WGA and welcome back to caching! Your name brightened up my day, Daisy Sunshine! 😀
@BigJim60 wrote:
@gotta run wrote:
Ya, hmmmm…you gotta like those 400 point gains in an hour… 😕
Open computer lab time at the middle school?
Sunday night pizza party at the school.
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