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Challenge Question #6polson middle school library (pmslib@cyberport.net)Thu, 2 Apr 1998 08:59:38 -0700 (MST)
need to be taken into account. First cranes fly in various weather types and at different times of the day and night. Our family farms rice in the Butte sink area on the north border of the Gray Lodge Refuse, north Sacramento Valley. I have observed cranes landing in rice fields when fog was so thick the cranes could hardly see me but once they did see me they were quick to leave. I have also heard cranes flying at overhead at night. It has occured to me the cranes need sound as well as sight when flying in adverse weather conditions. Powerlines need to emitt some type of chimes or clanging noise to alert the birds of the impending object in their flight path. Fog horns alert humans to dangers I'm sure there is some sort of noise the cranes would alert to. My name is Tim I work at Polson Middle School, Polson,Mt. While working in the Big Hole Valley one summer I had the pleasure of sharing the nearby marsh with a pair of sandhill cranes. What a magnificant creature!
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