Tag: Sandhill Cranes
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Riders on the Storm …
As usual, I heard them before I saw them, a “churring” call echoing off the low clouds. There they were, a ragged line high above me — sandhill cranes running before the storm. The High Plains, including the Front Range, are going to get our first major winter storm starting tonight — and it’s shaping…
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Valley of the Cranes
My husband and I went down to the San Luis Valley, in south central Colorado, last weekend. We’ve been down there to see the sandhill crane migration several times in the last few years (Miniature Upslope Storm), and it is always an amazing experience. Twenty thousand cranes pass through the San Luis Valley in late…
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Miniature Upslope Storm
My husband and I took a quick trip to the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado last week to see the largest migration left in North America — The Sandhill Cranes! Up to 20,000 Cranes and 20,000 other ducks, geese, coots, plovers and any other type of waterbird that you can imagine migrate through the…
Amy Law, Science Geek 