On Monday evening at dusk my neighbor found 12 to 15 Whooping Cranes amoung the thousands of Sand Hill Cranes at Crex Meadows near Grantsburg Wisconsin. the cranes were flying in for the evening after presumedly feeding in the surrounding fields. The Whooping Cranes easily stood out amoung the smaller darker Sand Hill Cranes. No bands were seen on these birds. Checking with a person knowledgible on the movements of the Wisconsin flock of Whooping Cranes reveled that these birds could not be part of that group, but were members of the flock that migrates between Alberta, Canada and Texas, being seen much further east than in previous years. Staff at Crex Meadows indicated no other reports of these birds. I decided to pass on this information as the birds have probably passed out of the area and were in large flocks of cranes that are unlikely to be approached.- Steve Weston [log in to unmask] ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html