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For Dorian... Furballs on sticks...
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Arrived at Loxahatchee NWR two hours before sunset. Asked the first photographer I saw if he knew where the Cranes might be. He said they have the same routine every evening. They come from the eastern front of the reserve to their nest in the western containment pond. This reserve is right at the edge of the everglades where their are berms for water retention and for buffers between glades and cities. You can only walk on berms as the sloughs are left as they were naturally as part of the glades. So I asked, Do they use the berms. He said, yep they even use a a small man made bridge to get to western containment where their nest is located. No sooner did he say this, they popped out of the vegetation to the east. So, for about a third of a mile I tried to stay ahead, set up and run ahead again. They purposefully trotted the whole way. It was so comical one family asked if I was the pied piper. They went exactly as the photographer described.