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急いで外に飛び出すと、空の上を鶴の大群がつるんで北の方角目指して飛んでいた。
くの字型に飛行体制を整えている最中で、中には型が崩れた変態、いや編隊もあった。
鶴のひと声というが、それが団体さんだとかなりうるさい。鳥というのは小さければ小さいほど鳴き声はきれいで可愛い。鶴くらいの大きさになると中学生のバンド部が勝手にトロンボーン、バスなどの低音管楽器を響かせているようにうるさい。
毎冬、ゲインズビル南方にある湿地帯に渡ってきた鶴たちが暖かくなってまた北へ戻って行く恒例の光景らしい。
中には自分のグループを見失ったのか、あるいは何か忘れ物でもしたのだろうか・・皆が飛ぶ方向とは逆に飛んでいく単独の鶴がいた。何かあわてものの自分を見ているようでおかしい。
「鶴の恩返し」という民話があるが、「鶴の引き返し」という新たな民話ができないだろうか・・
それにしてもどのくらいの数いただろうか？鶴亀算で計算する暇もなかったが２００～４００羽はいたかも。渡り（Migration)というらしいが、朝で良かった。夜だと渡徹夜になるところだった。
＊最後の鶴の大写しはネット検索で手にいれたものです。
"Migration"
We heard big noisy sound from the sky in the morning three weeks ago.
We dashed out of the house, and found out what the sound came from.We saw a large crowd of sand cranes that flew to the north.
They just started to make "L" style formation, some formation lost it's shape.
We say "crane sing"(it means authority power)in Japanese.It was true,they have authority power in their voice and made very noisy song altogether. I think that small birds sing more beautiful song than big ones. Kind of big birds like cranes, they sound like junior high-school brass band members practicing their wind instruments disturbingly.
It was a usual custom scene in Gainseville in the spring. The cranes came to the swamp which located in the south of Gainseville in the winter, and go back to the north area in spring.
I saw a crane that flew opposite direction. I wonder it lost it's group or forget something in the swamp...It was so funny, I felt that I saw myself in that bird as a careless person.
We have a folktale "The crane repay for person's kindness" in Japan. I wonder I can write a folktale titled "Turn back of a crane"
I wonder how many cranes were in the sky? I have no composure to count them, but I think there were 200 to 400 cranes in the sky. It is called "migration". It is good for us that they migrate in the morning. If they migrate in the night, we had to sit up all night and maybe we made a claim to cranes.
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