Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Cranes going South



Two days ago I had been to the Eifel and was able to see the cranes migrating. The end of October is the best time in Germany for having a chance to see these birds. There might be still coming cranes until December.


Cranes start from their gathering places in the early morning. They fly at a speed of about 80 km/h – with the wind coming from the North it seemed they were flying at an even higher speed. There is a Western route where I have seen cranes both in Meerbusch (Lower Rhine), where the cranes cross the Rhine and go to the Eifel, where I’ve seen them in Diefenbach (Kall). From here they go to their wintering places in Spain and Portugal via the French Champagne (Lac du Chantecoq). All in all 350,000 cranes take this way (and slightly differing routes) to the South.


They flew directly above my house and a small group has been flying at a lower altitude and tried to get a thermic uplift above my brother’s house, which is next to mine.





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