I love to drive through Deerfield on my way back to Auburn from the Seacoast, and was rewarded for the second time with a sighting of a Sandhill Crane in a field on Deerfield Road, on the left just below the Fernald Farm. It was hunting in the corn stubble, just below the manure piled up for future spreading.
I observed for more than a half-hour, thinking there must be more, but could only spot the one from my perch on the stonewall at the entrance to the field.
