Heard one this morning. They nest in the immediate area of our home, and I’ve seen pairs in their courtship dance. To me, they’re special wildlife, for their grace and beauty and strange, primordial voices. Although I have nothing against hunting in general, and I hunt myself, it’s unfathomable to me how anyone could want to shoot sandhill cranes, as some in Wisconsin do. I have rigid definitions in my mind of what are game animals and what aren’t, and there’s no way a crane could be considered a game animal.
Ending and Beginning 
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