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Celeste
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Every spring hundreds of thousands of migrating Sandhills Cranes stop in Nebraska for about a month of fattening up for the rest of their journey north. Check out this site. The videos are neat--go to the bottom of the page. This site has a link to a live "crane cam."
Friday we (husband, five daughters, and I) went to the Audubon Society's Rowe Sanctuary near Gibbon, NE; we huddled in a duck blind for two hours and watched all those cranes fly in to roost on sandbars in the Platte River after a day of foraging.
Breathtaking.
Even if big prehistoric-looking birds aren't your secret passion, I think you'll find that the Sandhills Cranes are pretty cool. Their migratory stopover here in Nebraska is one of the top ten nature events in the country, I'm told--we get visitors from all over the world.
If you are near NE or coming through (until early April), come see! (Oh, and you don't have to be in a duck blind to see them.  )
There will be a dvd, Crane Song, available soon from our PBS affiliate.
Celeste
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Fabulous! I used to live in Gainesville, FL and it was a big stopover site for sandhills also. Very impressive birds!
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Wow, Celeste, what an amazing thing to see! You have inspired me to find out what kinds of cranes we have up here in New England. 
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Celeste,
We watched "Crane Song" last night, and my girls loved it. They're begging now to go to Gibbon! We've never been ... I think it's now a must.
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Karen E.
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