WOW.
I've had the incomparable joy of seeing and sometimes hearing ever increasing-in-size flocks of Sandhill Cranes heading south, in October since about 2012. (Denver International Airport keeps an eye out for these birds, turkey vultures, eagle flocks...it's busy out here!)
THIS year for the first time, I heard and saw a flock of approximately 45 birds just east of my house (heh, sometimes I hope we never move) circling, gaining altitude - at one point they were actually headed back south LOL, and eventually creating that sort of V or U shape and going off to the north.
I've been boycotting Cornell/ebird for a while ever since their president is the same as Audubon's and they were supporting some guy who, in the name of science and birds, wants to eradicate ferals and have every other cat kept inside forever. There's no TNR or 'working cat' mode of operation in this person's mind. ANYway, I fired both barrels of complete and utter outrage at both institutions and stopped using ebird.
(sigh)
Well, in order to keep up with global warming (it really is a thing - we have birds, insects and plants we've NEVER seen before) and this spring's hummingbird migration I ended up using my ebird account again, trying to determine when I need to get my feeders out this year.
With that thought and out of curiosity I input my sandhill crane spotting event this afternoon, and saw that they made 17 miles in half an hour when a lady north of me posted her sighting of 42 birds.
Gosh, what absolute fun!
I've had the incomparable joy of seeing and sometimes hearing ever increasing-in-size flocks of Sandhill Cranes heading south, in October since about 2012. (Denver International Airport keeps an eye out for these birds, turkey vultures, eagle flocks...it's busy out here!)
THIS year for the first time, I heard and saw a flock of approximately 45 birds just east of my house (heh, sometimes I hope we never move) circling, gaining altitude - at one point they were actually headed back south LOL, and eventually creating that sort of V or U shape and going off to the north.
I've been boycotting Cornell/ebird for a while ever since their president is the same as Audubon's and they were supporting some guy who, in the name of science and birds, wants to eradicate ferals and have every other cat kept inside forever. There's no TNR or 'working cat' mode of operation in this person's mind. ANYway, I fired both barrels of complete and utter outrage at both institutions and stopped using ebird.
(sigh)
Well, in order to keep up with global warming (it really is a thing - we have birds, insects and plants we've NEVER seen before) and this spring's hummingbird migration I ended up using my ebird account again, trying to determine when I need to get my feeders out this year.
With that thought and out of curiosity I input my sandhill crane spotting event this afternoon, and saw that they made 17 miles in half an hour when a lady north of me posted her sighting of 42 birds.
Gosh, what absolute fun!