Date: 12/7/25 10:15 am From: Faye Stoner <faye.stoner...> Subject: [birders] Anyone see really large numbers of cranes flying yesterday?
Dear Birders,
Did anyone have “eyes on the sky” yesterday and see large numbers of cranes in flight yesterday?
I have a friend who is not actually a birder but certainly knows many birds, and she called me yesterday quite excited to report seeing a huge number of cranes in flight, west of Ann Arbor and south of 94, heading west. She watched as they flew over to the north side of 94 and then towards the northwest.
She said they made a huge long line of birds and at one point, her words, they kind of blackened the sky.
She was alone and driving on Jackson Road when she first saw them and she kind of “chased” them thinking they were heading to Haehnle. When she got to Haehnle, she said she could see the cranes far to the north in the sky, still going west.
She said she first saw them around 3 pm, kind of near the Fletcher Rd exit off of 94. (In case you don’t know that exit, it is the one just east of the Chelsea exit.)
Yesterday I checked on eBird to see if I can find anyone reporting a huge number of cranes but I wasn’t able to locate a report about that. (But I might have missed it.) I was looking at the checklists submitted throughout Michigan for Dec. 6.
My friend wonders if anyone else saw these birds? She said it was amazing! And she told me for sure the birds were not geese.
I did think to email and ask Steve Jerant, the birder who sends out the fall weekly Haehnle report on cranes, if he had happened to hear of a large passage of cranes yesterday but he replied to say he had not.
My friend would be delighted to have a birder confirm the huge numbers of cranes she saw.
Thanks!
Faye
Sent from my iPhone
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