In answer to Dale Goble's question:
In the fall, especially, there are large numbers of Great Blue Herons that
feed at Crescent Beach which is right on the main highway. I have had more
than one person ask me what the "cranes" are. It really is a beautiful
sight, especially at dusk when the sound is like glass and the tide's out.
Gayle Benton
Eastsound, WA
gbenton at thesanjuans.com>

>At a dinner tonight, a table companion asked a question that I could not
>answer: he saw a group of birds on Orcas Island on the 18th which he
>thought were cranes. His father-in-law (who did not see the birds)
>thought that this was at least unlikely.