Common Crane: These magnificent birds are now breeding in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Yorkshire and East Scotland, as well as populations in Somerset, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire. but rarely seen over my way. So, while working away with Gary Allwood in Lincolnshire and after finishing our first survey of the week we couldn't resist but to and see them.
A report of 37 cane wasps out early in the morning, but the report also said that all birds flew off when a tractor came to work in a nearby field.
I didn't think my luck would hold and they would return, especially as the late afternoon draw closer and the rain came in.
While driving down the road towards were the birds were reported we had a barn owl quartering, and after a short wait all 37 carne are flying past and landed close to us in a recently tiled field to feed.
