I am just back from a memorable weekend in Nebraska along the Platte River.
I am not kidding, the Sandhill crane migration is something to die for,
along the sections of an 80 mile river area, there must be at least 4 to
500.000 Sandhill Cranes not that I counted that many! I would say I saw in
excess of 80.000 from Grand Island upwards. I was up at the crack of dawn
each morning recording the spectacle, if anyone goes to this and I highly
recommend it, get a blind and go at night and in the morning, these
fantastic birds are a sight to see. They dance, fight, sing! Just wonderful
and in such a large group :-)

I did not see any Whooping cranes, apparently they have not taken off from
Texas yet but the chances of seeing one is pretty remote, there are only
some 198 that are left (migrating whooping cranes)

I have some great recordings and pictures that I will sift out and put up
for your enjoyment as soon as I get my eyes acclimatized to daylight :-)



Martyn



Martyn Stewart

Birds Sounds Digitally Recorded at:

http://www.naturesound.org

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Redmond. Washington. USA

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