Cranes on the move

[MickThompson]

Apparently today was the day to leave Hiwassee Refuge. From 9 til noon we were cutting up a tree from the ice storm and it was constant crane music when the chainsaw wasn't running. All were headed NW with a tailwind. Conservatively I saw 4000 before I quit bothering to look. Only saw one small group after lunch today. Several groups were quite low.

An awesome sight even if ducks didn't show when I could hunt them.

Edit- this happened in Cookeville. Apparently we were on the flyway north.

 

[Planking]

There was about 30 that landed in my field this afternoon.

 

[Displaced_Vol]

Seen several groups here in south central KY the times it's been somewhat decent outside the last week. Big groups, small, high & low it's kind of wild.

 

[rsimms]

Yea, it was noisy with sandhills all day over my house in Sale Creek as well.

 

[younggun308]

In Charleston at my dad's place I heard them calling up a storm in the dark on the wing, a couple hours after sundown. Evidently they can fly with just the light from the horizon.