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I am an artist, writer and photographer inspired by the natural world. My blog focuses on my experiences in nature and the creative journey that keeps me coming back for more.
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Whooping Crane Activity Book--A Fun Peek Inside!
While the ultralight-led Whooping Crane Class of 2009 is making its way south, children can read all about how imagination and innovation have helped us help our endangered Whooping cranes.As the author and illustrator, the complimentary distribution...
Our Whooping Crane Activity Book Is Happening!
The distribution of Operation Migration's Craniac Kids Whooping Crane Activity Book is underway! As the volunteer author and illustrator, I couldn't have received a more wonderful gift for my birthday (the 13th) as I read the announcement this mornin...
Whooping Crane Migration Training at Necedah NWR
I've just returned from what always feels like a whirlwind trip to Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin. While there, I had the pleasure of seeing our juvenile Whooping crane Class of 2009 training for migration behind their ultralight paren...
Posture is Everything!
I just paid a visit to Operation Migration's website to see how training went this morning. What I discovered was a wonderful video clip, something you will want to see, a pair of wild Whooping cranes threat posturing.When you view the video below, y...
Operation Migration Launches CraneCam!
Ever wanted to see endangered Whooping cranes but couldn't get to their location? Or wished you could watch the just-fledged juvenile Whooping cranes learning to follow their ultralight parents as they ready for their first migration? Now you can! Op...
Operation Migration Receives US Dept of Interior Partners In Conservation Award
Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar presented Operation Migration a Partners in Conservation Award at the Department of Interior on Thursday, May 7th and as Director and Board Chair, I had the honor and pleasure of participating in the ceremony. O...
Whooping Cranes Still in Tennessee
The ultralight migration is still located in west TN as I write this post and was grounded for another day today by too strong winds. In the photo above taken Sunday morning before I departed again for east TN, Richard van heuvelen tests the lower wi...
A "Try" Migration Morning
It was a "try-go" this morning at 26 degrees in west Tennessee as the ultralights took off with thirteen birds on Richard van heuvelen's wing and one on Joe Duff's wing. Many of the birds had their feet tucked under their feathers so that if you didn...
Ultralight Migration is in Tennessee
I'm in west TN in Hardin County, sitting in a warm RV beside Heather Ray and Liz Conde of Operation Migration as they are busy at work on updates and correspondence. Heather just posted some great photos of the ultracranes flying over Tennessee. Toda...
Fledged Plumage
We refer to fledged whooping crane chicks as "juveniles". It is always heart-warming for me to see these beautifully marked, graceful juveniles flying, but astounding to hear their tiny voices calling, “peep, peep”. Despite their enormous size, t...
Whooping Crane Family--Part V
Wetland Buffet. Considered omnivores, whooping cranes spend most of their time walking and foraging for food. While many of the foods they eat are found in wetland areas, they also eat seeds, berries, grains and nuts found in fields, prairies, savann...
Whooping Crane Family--Part IV
In the first days of its life, a whooping crane chick quickly attaches to and follows his parents through an instinct called imprinting. But following is an effort that takes practice.A lot of stumbling takes place until the chick develops strength a...
White Birds at Necedah NWR
My whooping crane biologist friends often refer to mature whooping cranes in the east as “white” birds, distinguishing them from juveniles. The palette of cinnamon among new white feathers and black wing-tips is truly beautiful on whooping crane ...
Whooping Crane Migration Training at Necedah-II
We now have 69 rare whooping cranes living in the wild and migrating through eastern North America. The sight of these birds never ceases to thrill me. I have had the good fortune of visiting the wild whooping crane population at Aransas National Wil...
Whooping Crane Migration Training at Necedah
Early morning whooping crane migration training at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin. Part of our whooping crane class of 2008 being led in practice by Operation Migration pilot, Chris Gullikson, on Friday morning. Below a view of the re...
Gourd Art and Whooping Cranes
My kitchen has been transformed into a studio, the table filled with unfinished gourd art and pine needles ready for coiling. Not that the kitchen ever poses as a domestic center, anyway. It more closely resembles a studio much of the time as projec...
