{"id":2228,"date":"2019-03-14T19:30:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T00:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2019-03-14T19:31:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T00:31:48","slug":"sandhills-in-the-valley-march-14-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/sandhills-in-the-valley-march-14-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandhills in the Valley, March 14, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year the day arrives when I can say \u201cspring has sprung in the valley,\u201d Today was that day! 49 degrees. Sandhill cranes, redwing blackbirds, Canada geese, a pair of trumpeters, a turkey vulture, a Valley awash in snow melt. \u00a0While it seems late compared to recent arrival dates,\u00a0a quick review of past Sandhill arrival dates shows that the cranes arrived right on schedule.<\/p>\n

March 15, 2009\u00a0 “Bitter cold night as late as 03\/13\/09. So cranes waited until we hit the 50 degree mark two days later.<\/span><\/i>“<\/center>
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March 12, 2008\u00a0“<\/span>3 Sandhill cranes fly over Goose Island near La Crosse.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/i><\/center>March 13, 2008\u00a0 A Single crane flies, calling, over Coon Creek near Stoddard.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Lots of melting snow in the valley. Temp\u00a0of 56.7 degrees.\u00a0” \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

March 11, 2007 “Sandhill Cranes on the islands off Goose Island Park south of La Crosse. Temps in upper 40s, two weeks after record snowfalls in Western Wisconsin, so lots of snow on the ground. March 12 the cranes are reported along Coon Creek and other valleys off the Upper Mississippi River.”\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Feb 23, 2005\u00a0 (a good two weeks earlier than normal!)
\n<\/span><\/span>March 15, 2003
\n<\/i>March 13, 2002
\nMarch 13, 2001<\/i>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 March 16, 1999<\/em>
\nMarch 1, 1998<\/em>
\nMarch 10, 1997<\/em>
\nMarch 13, 1996<\/em>
\nMarch 18, 1993<\/em>
\nApril 4, 1992<\/em>
\nMarch 9, 1988<\/em>
\n<\/span>March 17, 1987<\/span><\/span><\/em>
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Every year the day arrives when I can say \u201cspring has sprung in the valley,\u201d Today was that day! 49 degrees. Sandhill cranes, redwing blackbirds, Canada geese, a pair of trumpeters, a turkey vulture, a Valley awash in snow melt. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,42,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","category-flooding","category-upper-mississippi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2230,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions\/2230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}