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The search started at 6:20 a.m. in the dark, frosty fields of Routt County Road 42, and within 10 minutes, birders heard the unmistakable call of the sandhill crane.
“It’s such a wonderful sound,” one of the observers said Sunday, as five sandhill cranes flew overhead from their roosting site in the Elk River.
With their binoculars and scopes, the birders scrambled to follow the cranes. They hoped they would land in the nearby wheat field.
But the birds had a different plan and quickly vanished.
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