Awesome Dave. On our Cayuga Bird Club trip to Johnson Rd this past Saturday we were greeting with a nice surprise - a flyover flock of 50-60 cranes. Pete Sar
On Sat, Dec 7, 2024, 10:39 PM Dave Nutter <nutter.d...@me.com> wrote: > On November 26th Pete Saracino reported 323 Sandhill Cranes at the > Montezuma NWR Visitor Center, but in the following days they seemed to > disappear. On November 29th I saw none at the VC nor along the Wildlife > Drive and only 15 at Knox-Marsellus. On November 30th, the last day the > Wildlife Drive was open, I saw no cranes in any of these places, so I > thought they must have migrated en masse, even though in the last few years > many have stayed until or into January. > > I was mistaken, because until today I hadn’t checked the Mucklands, either > on eBird or in person. On December 5 Jane Graves and Alison Van Keuren > reported 300 Sandhill Cranes at the Mucklands, and yesterday Donna Carter > estimated 350 Sandhill Cranes there in a large crowd. Today (December 7) > Ann Mitchell & I stopped at the intersection of NYS-89 & NYS-31 at the west > end of the Mucklands and were astonished at the number of Sandhill Cranes. > For us, the cranes were spread out along various ditches, allowing me to > count them pretty accurately in a single scope sweep of our view south of > NYS-31. My total was 418 Sandhill Cranes. This large number has caused > eBird to hesitate to include my report in the database yet, but I’d like to > spread the word. > > - - Dave Nutter > -- > *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME.htm> > Rules and Information > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES.htm> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > ABA <https://www.aba.org/birding-news/> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- > -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
