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Re: 70+ Sandhills Cranes

Post by Colleen Kinzie » Mon Jan 04, 2016 9:32 pm

Okay
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Re: 70+ Sandhills Cranes

Post by Killerbunny » Tue Jan 05, 2016 6:20 am

Nice to see.
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Re: 70+ Sandhills Cranes

Post by Colleen Kinzie » Tue Jan 05, 2016 9:28 am

It's nothing to see anywhere from 2-6 at times but have never had the opportunity to see this many!!
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Re: 70+ Sandhills Cranes

Post by ross » Tue Jan 05, 2016 9:40 am

Probably staging for migration . Luck
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Re: 70+ Sandhills Cranes

Post by WLLady » Tue Jan 05, 2016 9:59 am

i had a huge flock of about 100 of these fly over me while i was deer hunting last fall. absolutely beautiful. i had never seen them before going south for the winter. usually we see them headed north again in the spring.
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Re: 70+ Sandhills Cranes

Post by Colleen Kinzie » Tue Jan 05, 2016 1:43 pm

WLLady wrote:i had a huge flock of about 100 of these fly over me while i was deer hunting last fall. absolutely beautiful. i had never seen them before going south for the winter. usually we see them headed north again in the spring.
Have you heard them?
They have an amazing call sound
Can't mistaken them for anything else
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Post by WLLady » Tue Jan 05, 2016 1:52 pm

I did lol. Thought they were a flock of young wild turkeys sneaking up behind me. They are way way louder tho-considering they were so loud in the sky that i thought they were right behind me on the ground!!
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Re: 70+ Sandhills Cranes

Post by Colleen Kinzie » Tue Jan 05, 2016 7:35 pm

A pair stopped off in our swamp one day
Swamp is not too far from chicken coop
The chickens thought it was the end when the Sandhill cranes started calling
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Re: 70+ Sandhills Cranes

Post by kenya » Tue Jan 05, 2016 7:39 pm

Really nice to see, thanks for posting!
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