One of the great joys of spending most of my holiday time in south-west France is that even after 22 years of making visits to this part of the world, it still throws up the odd surprise. I've never managed to record cranes while I've been there. I've encountered them a couple of times (flying over the village just once during daylight hours and overhead at night when I wasn't recording). This is a low hit rate as they pass through the area in good numbers, and are large and
