First day of spring is finally arriving tomorrow. Even though we had a comparitively mild, rather snowless winter, that late-season snowfall a week ago had to cause problems for the spring migration already underway. Thankfully, snow is mostly melted, but between the chill still in the air and moving the Annual Crane Count up a week to accommodate Easter weekend, it's a fair guess we won't see weather as gorgeous as last year's count.
Last year we had 33 counters at 23 Waukesha County sites count an amazing total of 225 cranes! Waukesha is chock full of crane habitat: corn fields, lakes, streams and marshes. If you'd like to join us this year, we'd love to have you. There's 52 "official" sites in Waukesha, and most are still available.
You don't have to be a birder to be a crane counter. Being tallest, and probably loudest, bird in North America, cranes are also the easiest to count.
Crane counters aren't loners! We love to get together after the count at Deb's Diner on Main Street in Dousman to compare notes, stories and photos. Reconnecting in spring of each year is something we all look forward to after the count.
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