Whooping Crane - Small World!

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Sorry for not formatting this copy-and-paste of a triple email message from Pat Bazany, but whether you read it top to bottom or bottom to top, it's a remarkable coincidence concerning the Whooping Crane!
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Ric,

  I forwarded the news of the Whooping Crane at Bruce's Bayou to birding friends in Florida. Did you know we winter in Citrus County?  My friends kept tabs on this very bird this past winter. See our emails below.  Gives new meaning to "small world" don't you think?

  Pat

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Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: Whooping Crane

pat you did steal our bird. that is the female that i found on 200 in march. her leg bands are the same. wow!!! effie

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A Whooping Crane followed us home to MI.  (Only kidding.) I went to see her on Wed.  She's in a bayou just down the street from us.  To get to the bayou, however, is about a 20 mile drive through town, over the bridge, through a second town and finally to the other side of the river at the end of 129th Ave.  (We live on 132nd Ave. -- so close and yet so far!)