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Have not seen that in Nebraska. Have gone to Monte Vista, Colorado a few times in the spring to see them there.
In the evening you can watch and hear them coming to the wildlife sanctuary by the hundreds, thousands gather. Also, well before sunrise you can hear them making noises as they prepare for the day.
Watching them come back to the water in the evening and leave in the morning with the snowy mountain backdrop leaves an impression.
Many only go a far as a nearby cornfield that has been harvested. They feed on what the harvesters dropped. That may get added corn for the birds. I watched them dine and do their mating dance for hours.
They can also be seen where they overwinter near Wilcox, Az.
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| Have never seen them myself, but my neighbor who is a bird watcher said she's observed them flying over our area. Very cool!
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| They spend part of the year in north Florida. There were places to go where you could reliably see great flocks of them. They make the most astonishing prehistoric clicking noise, and it's so loud that you can hear it when they're flying so high you can hardly see them. I could hear it from inside my house, so I'd go out and look for them. It was a sign that the seasons were changing. (I didn't read the article, so forgive me if I'm repeating something the author said.) |
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