Sandhill Cranes Southern Migration - Northern Illinois - Late November 2025
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 .