From The Denver Post (Jenn Fields):
Thousands of cranes come to Colorado’s San Luis Valley every spring…
Every year at this time, 20,000 sandhill cranes leave New Mexico and arrive in Colorado’s San Luis Valley to feast before taking off again for their summer breeding grounds in the greater Yellowstone area…
Seeing the sandhill cranes by the thousands is a spectacle humans can’t resist. We turn out in the thousands, too, to see them graze on fields in the San Luis Valley, perform courtship dances, flock into their roosting grounds in the evening. We’re far outnumbered, though. Jenny Nehring, one of the organizers of the Monte Vista Crane Festival, said about 6,000 people come to town to see the cranes during the festival and the weekends surrounding it.
