Mirror Lake Highway

[Roostertael at aol dot com]

Hi,

Bob Huntington and I tried the Mirror Lake Highway again this morning. The 
road is still blocked at the Murdock Basin turnoff, and it seems that the birds 
have moved above where you can drive. It may have been the wind, but we did 
not see much. Lots of robins, a few solitares, Cassins Finches, Pine Siskins and 
Chipping Sparrows, but not nearly the volume that we saw last week.

The only thing worth the trip was a pair of Sandhill Cranes with two chicks 
that were about knee high to the parents They were 1.1 miles above the first 
pay station that sometimes has a ranger at it. This is the first time I have 
seen Sandhill chicks. I was not able to get a picture because most of the time 
you could only see their heads and my camera was in the back. By the time the 
camera was ready, they had moved into grass that was higher than the chicks. Oh 
well.

Jack Binch

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