Above: The five chicks in Cohort #2 were greeted by five costumers where they were uncrated at Necedah after their trip from Patuxent.
Below: Ahhhh, the lazy, crazy, hazy days of summer. The chicks of Cohort #2 play around 'poolside'.
Below: Taxi-training in full swing. Look at them go!
Below: Chris heads along the path carrying a foldable blind on his back making him look a little like a Teenage Ninja Turtle.
George Archibald snapped this shot of two members of the "First Family" at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge.
Hey Mark, consider this photo our 'parting shot'.
Laundry over his shoulder and a change of clothes in his duffle, Mark, decked out in his 'gottchies' heads across camp from his trailer to the shower. (Photo taken last fall.)
Good luck Mark - all the very best to you from all of us at OM.
The first Whooping cranes to hatch in Wisconsin in over 100 years arrived on June 22nd, 2006. Dr. Richard Urbanek snapped these shots when the chicks were just a little over a day old!
