BIRDING SEARCH

With the possibility of seeing Whooping Cranes in mind, I topped the tall bluff above the shore of the Missouri River with my eyes intent on anything white. But there was only tan and gray in the shallow lagoons between me and the main river channel. That wasn’t unexpected or a game-changer, only the first step in searching out where migrating Whooping Cranes might be during my Wednesday afternoon birding drive. Then it was on to the sizeable floodplain pond combined with a check of area cornfields; then many miles of river valley habitat and the associated sky.