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Can count on one hand the number of times I've seen sandhill cranes or tundra swans in Mississippi. Not nearly enough.

At the rate the weather is going - this might be the year to see some.

billjohnson wrote:Not MS but we have several hundred on the Crow Creek refuge over here in AL. Far more cranes than Canadas on the refuge. Kind of like listening to them. We're getting more every year over here. Also saw three swans flying around over here yesterday.

YES !
There are a couple of Thousand that are wintering every year at Wood Res. (about) 40 miles North of where you were hunting Bill.

God Bless you

Wingman wrote:In Mississippi?

NE AR
In 5 years up here that was the first one I have seen. One of the farm hands had said that he had seen it sitting in some fields by itself earlier in the week. Was trying to figure out if he was wounded or just plain lost. Sure would make a nice mount.

Ive seen them in texas, and Ive seen them in a neighborhood in fairbanks... but until last year Ive never seen them anywhere else. We had a flight of 10-12 come thru our farm in earle last year.. blew my mind. Read this thread with intrest yesterday morning, and I swear by all things holy I saw 6 flying over covinton pike yesterday lost. They circled and circled, wind was wrong so i couldnt hear them, but I swear they where sandhills. couldnt belive it. travis

I visited my family in Tennessee last week. They live in Dayton, next to the Hiawassee refuge on the Tennessee river. If you want to see cranes, go there. They started out with a small population that has now reached 60,000+. There is no season on them although it is being discussed. They devour all food sources, disperse the few ducks and geese in southeast TN, and they make so much noise roosting on the river mud flats that you cant hear yourself think. They are truly a nu-sense to the land owners. The bird watching community is fighting hard against a season. If Mississippi gets a population of cranes, I can only hope it is not managed like the ones in SE TN.

man i remember calling twra 10 years ago asking about a possible season. they laughed me off the phone. wish they'd open it, it'd be a unquie experience in this part of the country. travis

donia wrote:

ransco33 wrote:I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I heard some sandhills fly over our place in Friars Point opening weekend. It was some kind of bird I'd never seen and listening to the call they make on Wiki, I'm almost certain that's what it was.

odd sound, isn't it, especially if you've never heard it before? had a flock come over one day while sittin in the deer stand. weim actually saw them, i couldn't see them for the trees.

Yes I did. We had a whole field full of them 2 years ago at our lease in clay/monroe county. Man they where making some noise!

We live in a subdivision off reece road in memphis (across i40 from belvue baptist church). Its not unusual to see grebs and coots and blackjack on the big lake as we get pushes of birds... today at lunch I saw a freggin canvasback drake. Thats as weird as sandhills over covington pike. Also saw a lost 10 pack of snow geese this morning over the shop. gotta be a lotta birds misplaced by this drought/cold/blizzard. travis

Saw on the MDWFP facebook site that a confirmed group of Sandhills had been spotted in Quitman, Leflore, and Panola counties. This thread any relation to that?

Wingman wrote:In Mississippi?

Had a pair of swans buzz the blocks north of VBurg MANY years ago.