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Birding Reports => Southern Ontario Reports => Topic started by: Julie on July 06, 2007, 12:05:47 PM

Title: Sandhill cranes
Post by: Julie on July 06, 2007, 12:05:47 PM

hi all

Does five minutes north of Parry Sound count as Southern Ontario? We saw two sandhill cranes standing in the middle of a marsh that appears to be flagged for destruction due to the "twinning" of highway 69. Don't get me started. It was pure fluke that i saw them but the long necks, reddish brown-grey neck/ body and red crest were giveaways.

I've seen them in southern BC but are they all that common as breeding birds in Ontario? Regardless, I felt very lucky!

Julie

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Post by: Brian Bailey on July 06, 2007, 12:36:52 PM

I've still only seen them in migration in Southern Ontario, but they appear to be increasing dramatically here.
Check this page from the Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas:
http://www.birdsontario.org/atlas/map.j ... =7&stype=1 (http://www.birdsontario.org/atlas/map.jsp?map=be&species=SACR&no=7&stype=1)
Note all the yellow dots:  squares where they weren't found in the first atlas.

BB

Title: Sandhill cranes
Post by: Margaret on July 07, 2007, 03:46:27 PM

Two summers ago I saw a dozen of these beautiful birds at Tiny Marsh, near Elmvale. Previously I had only seen them in Florida in the winter months.

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Post by: Kin Lau on July 07, 2007, 04:52:21 PM

There's a fairly reliable spot just 1 hour north of Toronto, off the east end of Lake Simcoe in the fall time.

There's also a few nesting pairs out in Ottawa.

Title: Sandhill Cranes
Post by: lakewmn on July 11, 2007, 01:35:53 PM

There are many cranes up on the Bruce Peninsula. I hear them all the time as they fly over my location in the early morning. Isaac Lake is one of a good spot to see them.