Around 8:30 this morning, my friend and I were driving on State Hwy 70 about 5 mi west of I-35 when we noticed numerous flocks of sandhills flying from the southeast to the northwest. We stopped on a side road and watched as flocks of 10 - 50 continued passing overhead for about the next 20 min. I estimated we saw about 3,000 cranes. What an awesome sight and sound!
We drove north about 2 mi on Pine Co Hwy 3 and got good looks at a couple hundred cranes feeding in open fields. Later we talked with refuge volunteers at Crex Meadows, who said that the cranes we saw had probably roosted at Fish Lake WMA, southwest of Grantsburg, WI. They said a similar number has been roosting at Crex Meadows, and they usually feed in the fields southeast of Grantsburg. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
