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Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Sandhill Cranes
Well, it's taking me ages on this old laptop. It doesn't want to talk to my iphone properly, but I've managed to transfer a few pictures of the Sandhill Cranes we saw on Sunday. It was a nice drive through Collingwood east to Stayner, past the little Edenvale airport, and off on a sideroad to Strongville. The cranes were right in the field where my sister told us to look.
Hundreds of Sandhill Cranes, the further we looked across the field, the more we saw.
As we watched more and more flocks flew in, adding to the numbers on the ground.
We drove around the entire large concession block and saw several more flocks. We estimated about 1000 or more in total. I can't tell you how exciting this was. We plan to return next year with the biggest telephoto lens I have.
We're left with a whole bunch of questions. Where do they come from? Why congregate in this particular field? How do they find each other? Where will they go next? Time for some research I think.
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Wow! That's quite a sight. We have a very small resident population of Common Cranes in England which have established themselves in the last couple of decades. We get very excited if we see half a dozen!
ReplyDeleteWe have big gangs of then congregating in the freshly shorn corn fields here in the Ottawa Valley too!
ReplyDeleteWe get sandhill cranes along the Columbia River in the winter months. They start arriving about now and stay until the spring. Maybe the cranes migrate from where you live!
ReplyDeleteOoooo so lucky to see this. We only see them sparsely far overhead on their way south. I do envy you and love the photos!!
ReplyDeleteWe don't have them here but looks like they stick together and look for leftovers in the ground.
ReplyDeleteLove seeing the cranes! Gord.
ReplyDeleteWow sure are a lot of them!!
ReplyDeleteThey are interesting to watch as they are active and you see all kinds of antics.
ReplyDeleteThey're quite graceful.
ReplyDeleteFantastic to see those sandhill cranes. I am now looking forward to next year's great pictures. :-)
ReplyDeleteIn our Arizona ranch sitting days years ago the ranch we were at was only a mile from the Whitewater Draw which was home to thousands of Sand Hill Cranes. In the morning we had them fly low overhead to their feeding grounds near Wilcox Arizona and late afternoon they returned to their roosting area at the Whitewater Draw. I must have a hundred photos of them. Beautiful birds and their call is unmistakable and I've always thought of it as wheebling sound.
ReplyDeleteLovely photos . We have a feeding station at the Aylmer Wildlife Management Area and there are thousands of Tundra and Trumpeter Swans that stop off there every fall through spring as they migrate back up to the Arctic . They fly over our house and they have a distinct sound that cant be ignored and one just has to look up lol .
ReplyDeleteThey are so interesting to watch! :) Too bad the video didn't work. I find I have to keep it less than a minute.
ReplyDeleteThese guys are so much fun to watch.
ReplyDeleteHow fortunate to have them nearby! We occasionally get a few in northcentral Pennsylvania and have a handful of breeding pairs, but never see them in such abundance -- enjoy!
ReplyDeleteWe had a few in this area and then they went south...I enjoy seeing them:)
ReplyDeleteI have heard of Sandhill Cranes and how amazing to see so many both in the fields and then in flight. It reminded me of similar scenes of snow geese we would see when living on the VA eastern shore up until a few years ago.
ReplyDeleteWOW!
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