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[shep]

August 10, 2015       Monday   Shepnotes 
NO training - low ceiling

FOG by pilot Joe Duff
I didn?t expect the birds to perform well because much of what they were breathing was moisture. This usually drains their energy and leaves them open mouth breathing, but this morning they took off eagerly. We stayed low over the marsh and cut a large sweeping turn back to the pen.

We rested for a moment and ate grapes then dodged the two adult cranes on the runway for another chase.  3 times we took off, each flight extending farther from home and all 3 times the birds followed, even finding the wing in perfect formation and we all landed back on the runway ? together.
http://operationmigration.org/InTheField/2015/08/10/slaying-fog-dragons

[shep]

August 11, 2015       Tuesday   Shepnotes 
6.16 am  trike arrives, Brooke is pilot today
FANTASTIC!   They flew .........  and they flew .... and they disappeared .. and they returned with lots of flying birds ... and they flew some more .. and some more .. and then ..........  the cam quit again!
They flew for about 15 minutes!  Straight!
Brook gave chix grapes, then took them up again.
7 am  they put chix back in pen

Pics
Cranes in the mist - looks like a lake!
Brooke, you dont have to pick up half the birds in the marsh!
My pics dont do justice to the beauty

Aug 11 training with Brooke
https://youtu.be/sroMGF3Ayrc

Doe and Fawn playing
https://youtu.be/94O6qc9ibhg

[baziunc]

Really pretty.  Funny about the other birds joining them.

[shep]

[shep]

August 13, 2015       Thursday   Shepnotes 
no training - too windy

One bird escapes as tume cleans pen feeders
https://youtu.be/nnYoXMFZ4Gs

August 12 training
https://youtu.be/43EpLyLPD9k

[shep]

August 14, 2015       Flyday   Shepnotes 
6.13 am  trike lands, Brooke pilot
6.17 they took off,
6.25 they landed - its RAINING! Its NOT supposed to.  Trikes cant fly in rain  -seriously
Brooke landed well in pouring rain, thankfully, with all 6 birds.

God thot the colts looked so beautiful flying that way that He cried.

training while raining
August 14 - an OM first, the trikes do NOT fly in so much as a drop of rain!
https://youtu.be/xu_sg0y-p3s

OM tume Tom Schultz photo roundup
PHOTO - Brooke with 6 crane colts
http://operationmigration.org/InTheField/2015/08/13/tom-the-tumes-photo-roundup

[shep]

August 15, 2015       Sataday   Shepnotes 
No weekend training til Sept
Joe Duff, OM pilot and staff
http://operationmigration.org/InTheField/2015/08/14/no-aircraft-training-for-the-next-four-weekends

Keith posts videos of the various wildlife in the marsh
https://youtube.com/user/QhQnmS

Irresistable pics stolen from the Decorah (eagles) lounge - 








Posted by Lani
Roseate Spoonbill's enjoying their time together !
Jefferson Island
New Iberia, Louisiana

[shep]

August 16, 2015       SONday   Shepnotes 
No aircraft training on weekends until Sept.
Doug Pellerin saw male Whooping crane 5-12 feeding in the field that is normally occupied by 4-12 and 3-14. Within minutes male crane 4-12 showed up and once again chased off his old pal.
http://operationmigration.org/InTheField/2015/08/16/reunited-and

2 OM photos on link
Autumn in the air with colors, bugs, and migrating birds gathering.

[omasawyer]

lani; love your photos of your cute pets and especially the Roseate spoonbills. driving from Texas to Louisiana there are many in the marshes en route -- thanks for posting

shep; be back on weekdays for the next four weeks; the fellas need their weekends off for certain

[shep]

August 17, 2015       Monday   Shepnotes 
6.20 am  trike arrives with Brooke
6.21  they're all off!  OOPS!  traffic jam!   
6.22  birds are off without trike hahaha
6.23  birds behind trike head out into the sunrise
6.36  landed
Chicks with altitude -  they're flyin higher
Chicks flew 2 minutes without the trike, just over 10 minutes with trike

Pitter patter
Tom Schultz captured photos from inside the pen
http://operationmigration.org/InTheField/2015/08/17/training-recap-5

[shep]

Aug 18 no training - fog

[omasawyer]

  shep; it was a lovely site to see the colts flying in what we call a "midsummer shower " and with the lovely sunrise to frame them.
They do look stronger than just a few days ago.
Thanks; as usual for photos and videos

[shep]

Aug 19 no training, rain


for the soul - from kbshcb - beek room

[shep]

Aug 20 - no training


Pic from Lani - Beek room

[shep]

August 21, 2015       Flyday   Shepnotes 
6.30 am  trike arrives with Brooke
6.33  They're off!  -  the colts - not the trike lol
6.34  Trike is up with colts behind - where they belong
6.56  lands

22 minutes straight - in the air
Good attitude today - and good altitude
They flew high and far

Video Highlight of Today?s Training
August 21, 2015 -  The young Whooping cranes flew twice:
The first flight lasted 22 minutes and the second flight: 8 minutes. Amazing!
http://www.wildearth.tv/videomark/august-21-aircraft-training-whooping-cranes
http://operationmigration.org/InTheField

Glad your enjoying them oma!   

Heavy sky traffic as crane colts meet gathering sandhill cranes