I told you how hard it is to get a story from a crane...

So,

Only you can appreciate the difficulty of getting this story out of my recent best bird friend, the crane.{shhhhhhhh, don't tell the geese, you know how jealous they are}

I am not like you, with a wonderful pond that is just a stone's throw away from my door. I have to hoof it a ways to get to the crane sanctuary, if you can call it that.