Originally Posted by
indyfabz
Funny. As I think I mentioned earlier in this thread, they can make a racket when they want to. I’ve seen (and heard) them in MT.
Last winter we went over to Wheeler Wildlife Refuge, outside Decatur, AL. If you think one or two makes a racket, they had had 300-500 sandhills, and a half dozen to a dozen whooping cranes. Funnily enough, the whoopers were hard to hear, but you could hear the sandhills driving in. In the car. With the heat on.
A friend who's hunted for ducks and geese commented, "It's like all those birds know exactly where the refuge is. They fly way up there, and you can hear them, but they don't come down until they're in the refuge!" So I may occasionally hear one or two sandhills flying over while I'm on my bike, but I don't see them.