[mou-net] Sherburne Crane Count

This morning's sandhill crane count was 4600, down from last week's 6700 or so.  However, there were a lot of birds calling from marshes that crane counters couldn't see, and therefore weren't able to count.  (We only count birds that we can see - in the air flying overhead from refuge marshes t

[mou-net] Sherburne crane count and other sightings

Sandhill crane count at Sherburne NWR this morning was 6755 birds - our highest count so far this year.  High count in (warm) November last year was 7527.   A single black-bellied plover was still on Stickney Pool mud flats, last leg of the Prairie's Edge Wildlife Drive on Thursday at noon.   Whi

[mou-net] Sherburne Crane Count - white owl on wildlife drive

Sherburne's sandhill crane count on Thursday, October 11 was 5,300 birds.   To view birds in the morning, they've been leaving the refuge mainly between 6:45 or 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 or 8:15.  On dark mornings they may leave a little later.  The best place is the 25th St. parking area on the NW corn

[mou-net] Sherburne Crane Count - WOW

Refuge staff counted over 7,000 sandhill cranes at Sherburne this morning.  I was in the "sweet spot" because 3500 of those birds flew right over my car.  It was the most amazing bird experience I've had since arriving at Sherburne.  If anyone had been sitting in the parking area designated for

[mou-net] Sherburne Crane count

This morning - our final crane count for the year - was 5850 birds.  Still a lot of birds around, but they are dispersing more widely, going as much to the NE as to the NW.  Also, the bulk of the birds moved off the roost in one big thrust at about 7:20, rather than trickling out over 30-45 minu

[mou-net] Sherburne crane count

JUST when I thought I'd be telling you that our crane count went down, it actually went UP!  This morning our count was 6190!  Daytime crane watching has actually improved, I think, over this past week - with more birds concentrating along the north side of CR 3, and along CR 70, quite close to

[mou-net] Sherburne Crane Count

A new Sherburne Refuge sandhill crane count record was set this morning - 4958 birds were counted coming off the roost at dawn!   Betsy Beneke Sherburne NWR Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html

Re: [mou-net] Sherburne Crane Count a record!

T@LISTS.UMN.EDU Subject: [mou-net] Sherburne Crane Count a record! Refuge staff counted 4314 sandhill cranes leaving refuge roosts this morning, a new record!  Counts are conducted weekly in October - last year's high count was 3900. For anyone who would like to see cranes in the Sherburne

[mou-net] Sherburne Crane Count a record!

Refuge staff counted 4314 sandhill cranes leaving refuge roosts this morning, a new record!  Counts are conducted weekly in October - last year's high count was 3900. For anyone who would like to see cranes in the Sherburne area, they leave the roost sites just after sunrise - right now about