Thanks for the tip. I went up there this morning and found about 200 still around!
On Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 9:32:17 PM UTC-7 Libby wrote: > At about 9 am this morning at the intersection north of Fort Collins of > County Roads 19 and 80, where there are huge fields on either side of the > road of corn stubble, we saw many groups of sandhill cranes feeding, > perhaps up to 4-500 in all the fields. Driving back by these fields from > Red Mountain Open Space at 4:30 pm, we were surprisingly treated to all of > them lifting off and flying in unorganized groups towards the south. In the > distance we could see them forming one big group, waving across the horizon. > > My question is this: do they migrate at night now, or will they find a > place to roost again for the night? This was a magnificent experience > seeing all those cranes lift off for us unexpectedly. > > Libby Edwards > Fort Collins > Larimer County -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/a9a3224a-5a80-4ff0-a536-a443cf081f40n%40googlegroups.com.
