The African Crane

Were you ever wonder what's the news about that famous African Crane near our house lately?

I had conversation about the bird with our neighbour. Sandy lives right across Fremont street from our house, and she is the one to feed the bird daily to keep it alive. The bird's owner is Patrick Ng who lives little far from us.

Sandy told me many funny things about this bird...

1. The bird was looking for his female partner by flying with a red van (the old owner has red van) while the van was driving on Fremont road, the bird peek thru the driver's window to see if his girl friend is in there, the bird fly with the car for about 5 minutes and back...sadly did not see her inside..

2. The bird made friend with giant blue heron who ate my kois. These two similar sized bird once fly with each other, talking to each other, play and having fun in Sandy's wild yard. Sandy also saw the blue heron picked a live gopher and toss it in the air, then swallow it as whole.

3. The African crane needs donation food. Sandy can not afford the food so many people started to donate food. I will buy some too later, it needs crashed corn, wild bird food, dog food or cat food in dry kind.

4. The bird goes to other places once a while, hope other people is feed him, but no one has idea what to do with this bird, unless the owner say something public, give it to the zoo? give up the ownership?

5. The bird begs for food. When there's no food on the ground, he will go to the kitchen window and tap the window for food. He did it for few times and always work !!

For me, I only ask this bird do not sleep on my rooftop. I can love the bird, donate food, and watch it fly with his 6-7 feet wings in the air.