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I've posted over the seasons photos and videos of the Sandhill Cranes when I hear them flying overhead.  It appears that Downers Grove (in the Western Suburbs of Chicago) is on their migration path as they seem to come-and-go each Spring and Fall.   I didn't post anything in Fall of 2024 (last year), but in 2023, I wrote that we heard the 'honking' overhead on Thanksgiving Day that year as they flew south .   The flight on Thanksgiving Day repeated itself this year.  Here's a quick video (below) that I took after we came home from the Downers Grove Turkey Trot: Back in 2020, I posted on November 25th showing their migration .  

I was out for a walk over the weekend when I heard a bugle-like noise and looked up to see a row of Sandhill cranes flying south high above the Western Suburbs of Chicago. Here's a video that I took of them - that if you turn your volume WAAAAY up - you can hear what they sound like: The DuPage County Forest Preserve District has this post up from one year ago that talks about these birds and their migration patterns .  They mention that there's a place in Indiana that sees thousands of these guys every year.  On the Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area DNR site , they have a count.  As of this past week, they had more than more than 16K Sandhill Cranes there on site.  Woah.