FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] Re: crane flight 1 mar 03

[Stephen Stedman <sstedman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The weather just south of the Tennessee border was certainly
similar to the weather in Kentucky Saturday, but there was
just as certainly a major movement of cranes through the
counties in the Tennessee part of the Upper Cumberland
Region with more than 5000 cranes reported, almost all
moving north in purposeful, obvious migration.  Many
birds do seem to have landed when getting to the vicinity
of the Tennessee-Kentucky border, so today could
witness many more sightings across Kentucky as those
birds head further north.

Be on the lookout for white cranes amidst the
gray-brown ones.

Steve Stedman
Cookeville, TN



Brainard.Palmer-Ball@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> If the weather in TN was anything like it was in KY on Saturday, I doubt
> that there was actually "migration" taking place.  It seems that many of the
> region's birds have actually been sitting in place for a week or more, but
> they often travel from roosting to feeding areas, or when they get
> frightened from one place, they may make local movements, perhaps mostly
> northerly given the time of year???
>
> Now TODAY is likely another story, if the feeding areas are not to their
> liking, I don't doubt that we will lose many of our birds to migratory
> movements northward with clear skies finally moving in.
>
> bpb, Louisville
> brainard.palmer-ball@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Stedman [mailto:SSTEDMAN@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 5:02 PM
> To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [birdky] crane flight 1 mar 03
>
> March 2, 2003: Quite a number of posts to TN-Bird and BirdKy concerned the
> crane flight yesterday.  I can add a few additional notes to what you have
> probably already surmised, i.e., that yester-
> day was indeed a peak day in the migration of Sandhills through the Upper
> Cumberland. Danny Stone is a waterfowl hunter who lives in Celina, Clay Co.,
> TN.  Yesterday he counted about 3000 Sandhill Cranes near Celina, all flying
> north. About 1300 CST he checked a field that lies right on the boundardy
> between Clay Co., TN, and Monroe Co., KY, and found a large number of
> Sandhills on the ground. Among these birds were two large white cranes,
> which he took to be two Whooping Cranes.
>
> Thanks to Terry Campbell for passing the word of Danny's sighting and for
> making an effort to find these cranes with me and Winston Walden this
> morning(no luck).
>
> Steve Stedman
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