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Monday, February 3, 2014

Weather improves for Hiwassee/sandhill crane roadtrip

Our Hiwassee roadtrip group

After several days of snow and ice, the weather improved and we hit the road south.

On a bag-lunch, "Not-so-far-afield" Roadtrip, we went on our annual adventure to the vicinity of Hiwassee Island at the confluence of the Hiwassee and Tennessee Rivers to look for sandhill cranes and bald eagles. 

After a 90-plus mile trip to two secluded locations in Meigs County, our group found both: hundreds of sandhill cranes at Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge and seven eagles viewed from the Observation Platform at the Cherokee Removal Memorial Park (CRMP) at historic Blythe Ferry.

- Stephen Lyn Bales.

Sandhill crane photo by Rex McDaniel


View from Observation Deck at CRMP

Observation Deck at CRMP
View of Hiwassee Island from Observation Deck at CRMP


Observation Gazebo at Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge
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