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This sign is wrong, it's not 100 years, it's now.

The whooping crane migration is due shortly, they fly from north of the tar sands mines in Alberta to Texas gulf coast.  I read the count a few days ago, it's less than 300 birds that will make this trip, there is another smaller group in the east and about that many in captivity, around 1,000 total.  This year is going to kill many of them, the two swamps they stop at in Kansas for a week or two to rest and feed, one is dry, the other has a few acres of water, much of it 2" deep.  This they will share with millions of ducks, geese, swans, etc.  There is also a couple of places in Nebraska and Texas they stop at, also dry.  The gulf coast is so dry salt water has invaded the swamp, cranes cannot drink it and will have to fly back a mile or so to drink after feeding in it.  Wildlife experts predict 40 to 80 birds will die during this migration due to lack of food and safe resting locations will lead to predator kills.  Rather than multiple stops as normal, in drought years they often fly straight through which weakens them so that many die upon arrival.

In past years my back yard has seen hundreds of monarchs gather for a week or so in mid Sept, hang in groups on the hackberry or mulberry leaves, then one day they all fly south usually on a brisk south wind for advantage.  14 years ago, the first year here, thousands covered the trees and lay in the grass, when the dog ran they puffed up in clouds around her.  This year we may have had 30 or 40 at once, since then a few randomly.

In southwest Kansas the pheasant count is 5% of normal, there is no water in any creeks in some counties, deer and cattle are being killed by the few rotting water pools.  Today the governor announced he will find hundreds of millions of tax breaks to bring in more commercial cattle operations into Kansas.  He better buy hay from Canada to feed them, pastures here are dead grass, and drill more wells into the falling water table.  The river through Wichita is a weed patch, you can jump over the tiny river flow in some spots. What a fuckup.