Date: 4/26/24 6:49 am From: Fred Kaluza <fkaluza...> Subject: Re: [birders] Swan / Crane Behavior
I’m still waiting for a picture from them. Stay tuned.
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From: Mag Tait <magtait1...>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 7:05:18 PM
To: Allen Chartier <amazilia3...>
Cc: Fred Kaluza <fkaluza...>; Birders UM <birders...>
Subject: Re: [birders] Swan / Crane Behavior
I am very interested in what these birds turn out to be. I have a dear friend who has become fairly good at identifying birds. A few years ago, she would tell me about this. Bird that had an entire redhead. It came to her feeder that was in Novi and I was jealous that she had a redheaded woodpecker in her urban area, and I had never had one at my feeder here. I asked what I thought were very clear question about the area of red that covered the bird’s head. It’s no point, I finally thought to pull up a picture on my phone and show her. It was a red bellied woodpecker and my questions were not as clear as I have thought apparently.
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On Apr 24, 2024, at 3:52 PM, Allen Chartier <amazilia3...> wrote:
Swans would look starkly white, not gray-white, especially in an agricultural field where they could be migrants (Trumpeter or late Tundra).
On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 3:38 PM Fred Kaluza <fkaluza...><mailto:<fkaluza...>> wrote:
Am I at least correct in assuming that Swans (of any kind) would normally not be found anywhere besides a legitimate marsh, pond, river or lake?
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From: Allen Chartier <amazilia3...><mailto:<amazilia3...>> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 10:24:51 AM
To: Fred Kaluza <fkaluza...><mailto:<fkaluza...>> Subject: Re: [birders] Swan / Crane Behavior
Sounds like all cranes to me. Sometimes Sandhill Cranes can look paler, depending on the light.
On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 9:06 AM Fred Kaluza <fkaluza...><mailto:<fkaluza...>> wrote:
I’m asking for a friend here…Yesterday, my daughter-in-law asked me about a bird. She stated that on her daily commute in Lapeer County, that she’s come to notice a couple of large gray-white birds regularly appearing in an unplanted (formerly plowed) agricultural field that are “just sitting there”. She was able to identify A couple Sandhill Cranes that were there at the time as well. Anyway, she asked what I thought might be going on. Her own thoughts were that it was a pair of Trumpeter Swans or maybe Tundra Swans. She thought maybe there had been some standing water there from the last rains and that they might be nesting there but I thought that unlikely. Outside a true lake or marsh that would be weird right? Then I thought perhaps one had been shot or maybe was injured after flying into a power line, was down and the mate was sticking around? I told her I’d ask the group. She said she’d try to get a picture today. Thoughts?
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