sandhills

Friday, March 28, 2008  by Cathy Lawrence
Category: Spring, gene, sandhill, crane, ornithology, walkerville, cornell

OK, just have to slip in one more blog. The Sandhill Cranes are flying north already...calling from what seems like miles up. Until you've heard their cries, you haven't heard what wild can truly be.

I've been to Walkerville and watched as family groups of 3--10 birds with 6' wingspans (2m) fly, bugling, just feet above my car, parked on the soft dirt shoulder, not even a whistle through their wings, to land over the treeline in an old corn field the area farmers leave littered with fallen stalks all winter.

How old is that hill? How old is this route? How old is the DNA of those birds? What a lovely world we are given to live in and share!

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# ajgannon said on March 29, 2008 1:32 PM:

My Mom and Dad are avid birders and live in southern Michigan.  I copied this blog link and sent it to my Dad's e-mail.  Maybe they would like to go and see the cranes.  Thanks Cathy!

# Cathy Lawrence said on March 31, 2008 7:13 PM:

AJ, the actual location is the Walkinshaw Wetlands, part of the Huron-Manistee National Forest It's just southeast of Walkerville. Saturday was a stunning day! Hope your folks get out there.

# Jeanne Dahl said on April 5, 2008 11:14 PM:

Cathy, the flight of the sandhill cranes is really something to see. In late March they follow the Platte River in Nebraska on there migrates north. seeing all the cranes, geese, and ducks at sunset is just unbeleivable.

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