The migration of the cranes.

Living here we are on the migratory route of the cranes. They fly south, from Sweden and Northern Scandinavia, in October/November, to Southern Spain although some now over-winter in Aquitaine. They do the return trip at the end of February/early March. It is said that when they fly South it is the start of winter and that when they return it is the end of winter. We saw the first ones last Friday, the 22nd February. They were flying very low and the noise they were making was very loud. Yesterday, several "squadrons" of them flew over in the late afternoon. The sky was blue and cloudless and they made amazing patterns in the sky. Each group was made up of over a 100 birds. The arrival of each group is preceded by the typical "honking" noise of the birds as they communicate with each other. Rambo was looking up in the sky trying to work out where the noise was coming from1