Yesterday afternoon I received an email from my sister in TX that friends of hers on Whidbey Island had discovered a Crested crane, the national bird of Uganda (and judging from a quick internet search, possibly other African nations). Not long after this broke I was in contact with my sister's friends and on my way to Whidbey Island. Upon my arrival I found the bird exactly where I was told it had been... in a pasture with cattle and Canada geese. It didn't take me long to obtain about 40 photographs of the visitor.
I was concerned that this wasn't a purely natural occurrence and, if I can believe third or fourth-hand information, my premise turned out to be true. The bird is apparently an escapee from someone who had a pen of the birds. So much for one of my sightings entering the county bird records sightings! However I did obtain some nice photos of the bird, a few of which I'm sharing with you.
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