Basil_O wrote:
Here are just a few of the 475,000 Sandhill Cranes that were coming in to roost on the Platte River in Nebraska this past weekend. By the time the migration is finished, it is estimated that close to a million birds will pass through an 8 mile stretch of the Platte on their way north. It has been called the greatest migration spectacle on earth. I don't know if it is or not, but I just call it magical to see and hear.
In Nebraska, the Iain Nicolson Audubon Center at Rowe Sanctuary has a "Crane Cam" that is wonderful way to view the birds leaving the river in the AM (5:00-6:00 AM) and the birds returning to the river in the PM (6:30-9:00 PM). Both times are Central Standard Time.