Scott,

Cranes migrate south in small numbers via Cape Flattery, Humptulips, &
Raymond to winter near Portland.

Gene Hunn.


At 09:58 AM 9/21/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Tweets,
>Ocean Shores was dead but not without suprises, and I do mean suprises!
>Interesting birds were an Osprey by the Cement Water Tower, two merlins;
>one at Bowerman, one at Damon Pt. Bills Spit had when I left at 4:30, 38
>Long-billed Curlew and 13 Marbled Godwit. There were 3 Spotted Sandpipers
>at the Marina. I had my first Laplnd LOngspurs of the year at the Hoquaim
>Sewage Ponds, there were 6 or 7, all winter females. Now for the big
>suprise at least to me, when I was watching the longspurs, I heard Cranes
>overhead. I turned and flying about 100 feet above me, were 34 Sandhill
>CRanes. I talked to another birder I knew that was down there yesterday
>and he said they had stopped at Lake Aberdeen and had 25 Cranes there
>yesterday morning. Is this a fluke, or a migration route that isn't
>publized alot. Anybody know?
>The Cattle Egret as Ruth mentioned was also there yesterday evening.
>Good birding,
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>Scott Downes
>sdownes at u.washington.edu
>Seattle WA
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