This morning's sandhill crane count was 4600, down from last week's 6700 or so. However, there were a lot of birds calling from marshes that crane counters couldn't see, and therefore weren't able to count. (We only count birds that we can see - in the air flying overhead from refuge marshes to croplands) We're not sure why they "slept in" - perhaps waitng for the temp to come up a bit, or maybe they overate yesterday? There are still a lot of birds around, anyway. Betsy
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