Dog Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Just seen a V of 50 going North - what is going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suze01 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 [quote user="Dog"]Just seen a V of 50 going North - what is going on?[/quote]The Spring migration back oop north p'raps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 I hope they have a safe journey in this terrible weather rivers are full here - so much rain last night and all through today - great thunderstorms last night. I just don't remember them returning this early last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suze01 Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Have just had a flight of about 200 go over heading north. (NW Dordogne). Yay - spring is on it's way [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 I saw a mere 20 yesterday heading North. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MargaretD Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 If you want to see some Grues at the moment, the Aube area, north of Lac du Temple has several hundred. If you drive from Brienne to Piney I usually see one or two fields totally packed with them. Sadly, they're eating all the maize crops that were planted in October! One of my friends has written off one of his fields and will replant once these 'pests' have gone. I personally love watching them, witht their frilly black skirts and their red outline on their eyes. Every winter we have seen thousands of them here. Not sure whether they know they should be on their way further south. Margaret Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
water rat Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 can't believe it , but the cranes are already heading north and we've got snow! .Saw over a hundred flying over our place (36160) yesterday around 4.pm .We did have more than ever heading south during the autumn ,hopefully the flu wont make much of a dent in their numbers.Anyone else hand a sighting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
val douest Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 We had several hundred overhead yesterday - two groups, one coming fromthe south west and one from the south which joined forces and headednorth. We are in the north west corner of Hautes Pyrenees, notfar south of Aire sur l'Adour. It really is a magnificent sightand the noise is amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 Seena couple of waves going over - I think if you view from the correct angle they look like flying ascii art fluxing around with crazy kerning and elastic leading making moving cartoons... they always seem to do a snoopy and various faces... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrianpmills Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 We saw a hundred or so Thursday and a couple of hundred yesterday - Eastern Haute Vienne/Creuse borders - flying North/North East. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margie Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 Can someone tell me where the Grues start and finish (fly to and from) their annual migrations please. A wonderful sight enjoyed in the Charente flightpath for 2 years now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 Have you seen the nests in Poitiers Chris, on the other side of the square where the Dept. of Justice building is ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris pp Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 The Cranes nest in Sweden, Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Germany and to some extent Russia. As the Cranes prepare to migrate they start to gather at various places, the Swedish island of Öland and the south coast of the Baltic Sea on the island of Rügen are important sites for this, then toward the end of October about half the birds start to move over a period of a few days, flying south west towards Champagne Ardenne in north east France, where there are a number of large lakes, Lac du Der being particularly important. The remainder of the birds will, depending on weather conditions, follow in December. Some of these Cranes will stay at the lakes in north east France for the winter, hundreds of thousands more will continue to fly south west across France in November to over winter in Spain, Portugal, Morocco and south west France, in France this is principally Aquitaine / Gascoigne. The exact dates / times vary with climatic conditions, this year they have been "running late" due to the milder weather across Europe, they can start to return to the breeding grounds from as early as the beginning of March. I don't know about the nests you are talking about in Poitiers, Gary, what do they look like? Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 [quote user="chris pp"] I don't know about the nests you are talking about in Poitiers, Gary, what do they look like?[/quote] They are nesting storks and can be seen on the chimney tops from the square. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris pp Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 Ah, I see, Gary. That, I'm pleased to say, is one of the sucess stories of the last 30 years when this bird was on the edge of disappearing in the region, or the Country for that matter. Numbers are now "reasonable" with continuing recovery, protection from being hunted has helped and also with projects like the one in the photo.[IMG]http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q73/unautremonde/White-Stork.jpg[/IMG]Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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