Sand Hill Cranes
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Topic: Sand Hill Cranes
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Subject: Sand Hill Cranes
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2020 at 7:30pm
Has anyone noticed an increased # of these cranes in your area? Recently they've been flying(low-to the-ground) across the roads from 1 field to another. I don't recall ever seeing so many grazing all types of fields  .
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Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2020 at 7:48pm
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Had a big flock of them high overhead last week. My farm is right on their migration route so they're here in this area in the spring and again in the fall when they're headin south. Big flocks often stop to feed in the field to the west of the house and sometimes on takeoff from there, they'll fly so low they just clear the roof of the house. Magnificent sight at close range, but it drives the dogs nuts! |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2020 at 8:42pm
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Have them here all summer! ---they live in the river here by the house. ------------- http://machinebuildersnetwork.com/ |
Posted By: Boss Man
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2020 at 8:46pm
| had a cabbage farmer tell me they taste like chicken |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2020 at 9:27pm
| they'll also dig up and eat the seed that we all plant! tears the heck outta planted fields |
Posted By: BuckSkin
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2020 at 3:56am
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I watched a special about them on "Nature" I believe it was. The one thing that stuck in my head was the statement made that the majority of what most people think are geese, flying overhead hollering, are not geese, but in fact sand hill cranes. That being said, around here, the majority of what I think are geese are in fact geese, as they set down on the neighbors ponds. At Barren River Lake, between Glasgow and Scottsville Kentucky, such huge migratory herds of them stop there that it is a huge tourist attraction with tours and everything. |
Posted By: Kansas99
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2020 at 6:41am
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This year around here I don't remember any coming through, but we had geese all over the place that stayed the winter, snows and canadians. ------------- "Thank you for your service Joe & the Ho"-----Joseph Stalin |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2020 at 6:51am
They'll also rip seedling/shoots out of the ground and leave 'em there just for spite!
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shameless dude wrote:Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2020 at 7:06am
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I heard Michigan is planning a season on them. I guess they are tasty! ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2020 at 8:07am
| We have had Sand Hill Cranes here for many years. Yes they will pull corn out and go right up the row. DNR gives control permits to farmers to shoot them causing crop damage. I have a pair here every year and they raise one chick. Neighbor kid asked me one time what kind of birds they were when he heard the rooster crowing. I said Dinosaur Birds or Teradactyl's some people say,but to me they're Sand Hill Cranes! |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2020 at 5:44pm
Seems like cranes fly ALOT higher than geese ?? Just my observation
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