FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] POSSIBLE WHOOPING CRANES in Hart County !

["Kistlers" <kistlers@xxxxxxxxx>]

    This evening, Sunday, Nov 16th, my wife was watching a video concerning 
whooping cranes that she has been sharing with her third grade class. Just 
Friday one of the migration support team came to her school to show slides 
about the ultra-lite led trip south.  A few minutes before 10 pm CST we heard 
some loud calls and ran out the back door. The birds were easy to hear in the 
darkness above our house. The calls were loud and clear, reminiscent of geese 
but higher pitched. Clearly they were not sandhill cranes. I could not find 
this particular call on the whooping crane partnership website 
http://www.bringbackthecranes.org/index.html , but it sounded very much like 
the calls on the video we have. We rewound it and played it a few times. It was 
a very good match, to my ears.
    I understand of course that this does not constitute a positive ID of the 
birds, but this is the third year the eastern flock is migrating south, and it 
will become increasingly likely that we will hear and see these birds in 
Kentucky. Keep your eyes on the sky and sleep with the windows open !
Steve Kistler
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