We were driving down 63 south of Ft Mac and I just got a glimpse of 2 big brown birds on the side of the road in some muskeg looking stuff. They were standing upright, like cranes. I'm sure some of you guys know what they are?
Big brown birds in northern Alberta
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Yeah, that sounds appropriate.I don't think I've seen them in BC.
They are everywhere here in the interior. In the fall when the local birds flock up it is not uncommon to see hundreds of them in the fields feeding
Many years ago my dad told me a story of how to cook a sandhill crane.
Clean the crane and put it in a large roasting pan and place a 15-20 pound rock on top of the crane.
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
Cover the roasting pan, put it in the preheated oven for 5 to 6 hours.
Remove from oven, throw away the crane and eat the rock.
Clean the crane and put it in a large roasting pan and place a 15-20 pound rock on top of the crane.
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
Cover the roasting pan, put it in the preheated oven for 5 to 6 hours.
Remove from oven, throw away the crane and eat the rock.
See them in the corn fields, grain and alfalfa along the Fraser River just below 'Boo Country prior to their migration.
They create an awesome sound when they start calling and create huge flocks.
Counting them in lots of ten and had around 400 once.
Yes and no.
While they are protected in BC I used to shoot a few each year when I was still in Saskatchewan. The older birds taste OK but are as tough as hell. (They do make good long-lasting jerky though
) The birds of the year however are a different story and we use to refer to them as "flying rib-eye"
To see sandhill cranes, go to west-central Texas in the winter.
There is a huge reserve where all our western sandhill cranes seem to winter.
You can't hear yourself think when they are going or coming from their daily feeding area.
There is a huge reserve where all our western sandhill cranes seem to winter.
You can't hear yourself think when they are going or coming from their daily feeding area.
I didn't realize those were the same as the ones I saw. The ones I saw the other day were much darker brown. Maybe just covered in mud.
Look like this?
Grizz
Yup, like that just much darker.
Sounds like tar-sands birds.…
Had them land in a new subdivision that we were constructing in Port Perry, around the time they were raising and training them to migrate south behind ultralights. They followed the soil inspector around, short guy with a red hard hat, while he was doing compaction tests on the road base. He would stop and do a test, they were 10-15 yards behind him and would peck at the ground until he moved along. It was pretty neat to watch.
