Yesterday (Friday, December 12), we were meeting friends for lunch in Decatur, AL at Big Bob’s BBQ.
We agreed to meet at 1:00 PM for lunch to avoid the lunch rush.
Bruce and I left early so we could see the cranes at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge.
The volunteer at the desk said 10,000 sandhill cranes were currently in the refuge and another 10,000 were expected in January. There were 15 whooping cranes in the park and four of them were in the field behind the visitors’ center. When I asked her for the closest location to see the cranes, she said, “Go out the back door, take the path on the right and you’ll be at the observation building.”…