Veem
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Post by Veem on Jan 3, 2023 17:19:48 GMT 1
Blimey. It's no time since we saw crane flying SW and the first lot flying NE has just flown overhead!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by specsavers2 on Jan 3, 2023 17:57:11 GMT 1
A group flew over us around about 4: 30.,very unexpected.
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Post by lurcher on Jan 3, 2023 19:10:35 GMT 1
We are not there to see the cranes and we usually miss the return North because we return to France in late March. It does seem very early so what does it all mean. Could be a long, hard winter.
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Post by cernunnos on Jan 3, 2023 19:27:05 GMT 1
It means that they think that the Winter is over , so don't need to continue further South
28 décembre 2022
Comme souvent, les premiers vols de retour vers le nord-est sont notés entre Noël et le jour de l'an. C'est le cas pour quelques grues en Gironde, dans le Lot-et-Garonne et la Haute-Vienne. Les vents sensibles de sud ou sud-ouest sont très favorables ! Au lac de Puydarrieux, 7 230 grues sont comptabilisées.
So it not unusual
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Post by pcpa on Jan 3, 2023 20:44:37 GMT 1
Hardly worth the effort of the aller retour surely? I know how they feel though, I fitted my winter tyres about the time they flew South  |
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Nifty
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Post by Nifty on Jan 4, 2023 10:24:29 GMT 1
@ cerunos
Quite a few in Bordeaux and Pau as well.
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Post by cernunnos on Feb 24, 2023 17:54:43 GMT 1
Thousands of cranes going North very low over our house this evening. I have never seen so many in one go
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Nifty
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Post by Nifty on Feb 24, 2023 18:02:23 GMT 1
I have just seen one flight of about a hundred ? flying very high over Air-sur-l’Adour in a northeasterly direction.
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Post by pcpa on Feb 24, 2023 22:20:01 GMT 1
Thousands of cranes going North very low over our house this evening. I have never seen so many in one go Me too, there were 4 waves of them, the first must have been several thousand alone, the others only a little smaller, an amazing spectacle for me in my first year.
Thank heavens there were no flights taking off or landing because they were at pretty much the exact altitude the planes pass over my property.
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Post by spectrum on Feb 25, 2023 7:58:44 GMT 1
Yes same here a few waves of them, about 1600/1700.
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Post by Polarengineer on Feb 25, 2023 8:44:40 GMT 1
Great counting everyone. Like the joke, " how do you know there were 2004? Well there were the four on the outside and a couple of thousand in between.
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Post by cernunnos on Feb 25, 2023 8:57:09 GMT 1
We don't count , just gaze in wonder at something that sends shivers down our spines. It is an ancient and marvelous spectacle , the migration.
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If you think that the folk living here 2000 years ago must have seen the same thing that we are now destroying , it brings you back to the reality of what is important , and it ain't facebook !
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