Headed up at 4:00 a.m. tomorrow for the first of many goat scouting trips. Hope you all enjoy your Sunday as well
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Headed up at 4:00 a.m. tomorrow for the first of many goat scouting trips. Hope you all enjoy your Sunday as well
Yeah Irving, sandhill is awesome. Whole different type of hunting but the meat is amazing
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Originally Posted by Lars
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Originally Posted by sniper7
I've wondered what the meat would taste like. Great birds! We see them in the thousands migrating over the Grand Valley, and for the first time I heard one flying over our mountain home this spring. Here's an adult pair and two young I saw yesterday in a field outside Heber City.
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Huh, I don't think I've ever seen one of those around here. They do look tasty....Quote:
Originally Posted by Hummer
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Originally Posted by Irving
Irving must have been in SW Nebraska where the Sandhill Cranes stage in spring migration by the thousands for the flight north to breeding areas in Idaho, Montana, British Columbia, and Alberta.Quote:
Originally Posted by GilpinGuy
In Colorado they breed in relatively small numbers in the mountain valleys of the western slope . I've seen them in the Colorado, Yampa and White River basins, and in meadows along the roads to Gateway and to Collbran. Sometime you can see or hear them flying over the Front Range corridor from Boulder and Denver to Greeley, but more in the east and north east along the South Platte.
They fly very high so you often hear them calling without seeing them, and then with binoculars you might spot them as they turn so their wings reflect sunlight. In most years during elk season I see small flocks very close up as they fly over the 10,000 ft. mountains in the Flat Tops. Grand birds with a 5 foot wingspan and a prehistoric awesomeness!
My photo is from Heber City, SE of Park City, UT, so they are breeding here too.
I've always noticed flocks of birds flying VERY high when I'm out at Pawnee. They fly much higher than geese, but you can hear them almost all day sometimes. I've asked other people, but they didn't know what I was talking about. I wonder if I was seeing those Cranes!
I think Grand Island, NE calls itself the Sand Crane Capitol. I was driving through when I posted that.
You most surely were hearing and seeing cranes. Next time, stop and scan the sky with binoculars. When you spot them you'll be amazed by how much more you can see, and their twists and turns in flight are like choreographed art.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
That's really exciting. I've noticed them for the last several years but could never be next to a person knowledgeable about birds at the same time.
They are amazing birds, hardly hunted and requires a bit more scouting but the meat is worth it.
And they are aggressive birds if wounded so be careful if you have a dog and try to hunt them. If they still have life in them they will get on their back and kick at you with their feet with super sharp nails, hiss and try to attack with their beak which is like a dang pterodactyl!