The plug is about to pop on the annual sandhill crane migration.
Several thousand cranes have trickled into central Nebraska over the past month, but cold weather, frozen Platte River channels and snow-covered cornfields and wet meadows have kept bird numbers relatively low, said Dan Glomski, education coordinator at the Nebraska Nature & Visitor Center south of Alda.
High temperatures forecast to be in the 40s and 50s in central Nebraska this week could change that, he said.
“The migration is late. The river is starting to thaw. If the ice eases a bit, cranes could come en masse,'' Glomski said.
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