2005 Crane Counts
SANDHILL CRANES COUNTED THE EVENING OF: MARCH 2005 3 100+ (Our first “official” group!) 4 125 5 700 – 750 6 100 – 125 7 75 8 1 9 1000+ 10 150 11 2,500 (there may have been as many as 3,000) 12 600 + 13 700 14 15 – Cold front coming in from the South (holdovers from yesterday?) 15 0 – It’s still cold 16 100 17 0 18 0 – Damn! 19 1,700 20 Very overcast and stormy conditions surrounding the area today. This evening we had about 1,500 (about 1/2 left the Reservoir @ 10:30-45 am and some returned, we don’t know where the rest came from) 21 125 22 700 23 700 (Many cranes did not leave this morning) 24 390 to 400 25 36 26 300 27 500+ 28 1,300 to 1,500 29 200 30 130 31 21 APRIL THIS CONCLUDES OUR CRANE COUNT APRIL REMAINS AN EXCITING TIME We try to count Cranes around sunset Crane counts are estimates of what These numbers are most useful Sometimes the counts we post |
OTHER BIRD SPECIES SIGHTED 2005 at, or adjacent to, the RESERVOIRSandhill Crane (Greater ssp.) Great Blue Heron Bald Eagle Golden Eagle Mallard Common Merganser Canada Geese Yellow-headed Blackbird Black-billed Magpie Western Meadowlark Barrow’s Goldeneye Redhead American Widgeon American Coot Northern Pintail Mountain Bluebird Killdeer Great Horned Owl Red-tailed Hawk Northern Harrier (Marsh Hawk) Pied-billed Grebe Western Grebe Red-wing Blackbird Mourning Dove Belted Kingfisher Starling Ring-necked Pheasant Common Raven Rock Wren House Finch Double-Crested Cormorant CinnamonTeal Greater Yellowlegs Great Egret Green-Winged Teal Northern Shoveler Cattle Egret American Avocet White-Faced Ibis |