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Sandhill Crane Migration
- To: Carolina birds posting <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: Sandhill Crane Migration
- From: NLJ Sharp <nljsharp@worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 23:30:50 -0500
- Reply-To: nljsharp@worldnet.att.net
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Carolina birders
In response to Ann Shahid's post on the Sandhill Crane festival on the
Platte River in March in Nebraska. I missed the festival by one week
last year, because I wanted to take my son with me when he was out of
school, but went to the same spots listed on the brochure one week
latter. I highly recommend it. It was truly amazing to see so many large
birds in one spot at one time. Also, I got a Whooping Crane that was
mixed in with the Sandhill Cranes feeding in a corn field. On other
spots along the Platte, Bald Eagles, Osprey and migrating ducks and
geese can also be seen in large numbers. I moved to Nebraska as a small
child, and moved here to South Carolina 19 years ago. It was interesting
to see what I was missing all those years I lived there. One of the
guides down at the bunker to see the Cranes said, they have increased in
numbers over the last few decades, because they have adapted so well to
eating the left over corn in the farmers fields instead of roots like
they use to eat.
--
Linda Sharp
Greenville, SC
nljsharp@worldnet.att.net